When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. What would you have, O man?
When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. What would you have, O man?
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Discourses. Chap. xxi.
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- c. 60 AD · classical
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