.....When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, "I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men," Epictetus replied, "I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!"
..........— Epictetus (55 C.E. – 135 C.E.), Greek Stoic philosopher, born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey). The Golden Sayings, LXV.
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