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If I admire the exegete because he provides good explanations, and if I can understand and myself interpret the text and if, quite frankly, everything falls to my lot except the fact of making use of these writings in life, would I have become anything other than a grammarain instead of a philosopher?...the fact of just simply reading the writings of Chrysippus or of explaining them on the request of somebody else, and of not making use of them in life, is reprehensible
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Commentary on Epictetus' Enchiridion |
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Ancient Greek Philosophy |
Ancient Greek Philosophy |