“To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.”

— Epictetus

Variant translation: To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
Book I, ch. 2.
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philosopher from Ancient Greece 50–138

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