If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.
Stoic philosopher, former slave
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.
Stoic philosopher, former slave
The Discourses of Epictetus
c. 1st-2nd Century AD
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