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Quote card: Show me a man who though sick is happy, though in danger is happy, though dying is happy, though in exile is happy, though in disgrace is happy.

“Show me a man who though sick is happy, though in danger is happy, though dying is happy, though in exile is happy, though in disgrace is happy.”

Epictetus, Discourses 2.19 (George Long translation). He goes on: Show him: I desire, by the gods, to see a Stoic.

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