Vulgar words in A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion (Page 1)
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For the future, relying on these opinions, walk about upright, free; not trusting to the size of your body, as an athlete, for a man ought not to be invincible in the way that an ass is.
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If you tell me that you can kick violently, I also will say to you, that you are proud of that which is the act of an ass.
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* * * * * WHAT THINGS WE SHOULD EXCHANGE FOR OTHER THINGS.--Keep this thought in readiness, when you lose anything external, what you acquire in place of it; and if it be worth more, never say, I have had a loss; neither if you have got a horse in place of an ass, or an ox in place of a sheep, nor a good action in place of a bit of money, nor in place of idle talk such tranquillity as befits a man, nor in place of lewd talk if you have acquired modesty.
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Here is a man who does not listen to reason, who does not know when he is refuted: he is an ass; in another man the sense of shame is become dead: he is good for nothing, he is anything rather than a man.
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This man seeks whom he may meet and kick or bite, so that he is not even a sheep or an ass, but a kind of wild beast.