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Friday, January 16, 2015

Friday, 16th January, 2015

Epictetus – Greek Philosopher

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. - Epictetus

Epictetus (55 AD-135 AD)was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia, and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in north-western Greece for the rest of his life. - Wikipedia

Pic: "Epictetus" by Claude Reydellet, engraving by S. Beyssent - kunst fuer alle. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Epictetus.png#mediaviewer/File:Epictetus.png