A passage from Epictetus
Epictetus, Enchiridion 24
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Let not such considerations as these distress you: 'I will live in dishonour, and be nobody anywhere.' For if dishonour be an evil, you can no more be involved in any evil by means of another, than be engaged in anything base.
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