Someone who is skilled in reasoning, and is able both to encourage and to refute, will thus be able to show each person the contradiction that is causing him to go astray, and make him clearly understand that he isn’t doing what he wants, and is in fact doing what he doesn’t want.
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Author Epictetus
Source Discourses
Topic contradiction understanding
Date 2nd century
Language English
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Note Translated by Robin Hard
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