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“Be content, then, in everything, with being a philosopher; and if you wish to seem so likewise to anyone, appear so to yourself, and it will suffice you.
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From Section XXIII (Higginson translation) of The Enchiridion. Read the surrounding argument as well as the excerpt; its historical language and philosophical assumptions shape its meaning.
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Source: The Enchiridion , Section XXIII (Higginson translation)
Edition: Thomas Wentworth Higginson translation · Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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