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Epictetus – happen

Mind Quote / Hierapolis, Turkey / 55-135 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph - Arthouse sculpture, Sydney, Australia / LoadingBookmark / Print /
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Man are disturbed not by things that happen,

but by their opinion of the things that happen.

– Epictetus

 

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