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If you don’t pause to consider what is involved, you will end up like a child: wrestler one minute, gladiator the next; actor one minute, musician the next. You will be like a monkey that imitates whatever comes its way, drawn by different things. You have not paid attention, and you have not thought things through. You are being casual and arbitrary.
The Good Life Handbook: Epictetus' Stoic Classic Enchiridion
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