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Enchiridion · 23
Chapter 23

If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, so as to wish to please anyone, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life. Be contented, then, in everything with being a philosopher; and, if you wish to be thought so likewise by anyone, appear so to yourself, and it will suffice you.

Epictetus, Enchiridion 23. Translated by Elizabeth Carter (1758). The Stoic Library.