Quotemeal: Aug. 8th, 2020

Saturday, August 8, 2020

"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."
— Epictetus

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Illustration of Epictetus — "If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."

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