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Quote card: Being asked what he had gained from philosophy, he replied, This at least, if nothing else, to be prepared for every fortune.

“Being asked what he had gained from philosophy, he replied, This at least, if nothing else, to be prepared for every fortune.”

Diogenes the Cynic, as reported by Diogenes Laertius, Lives 6.63 (Hicks translation)

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