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Fragment 25

From Epictetus

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When you attack someone with vehemence and threatening, remember to tell yourself beforehand that you are a tame animal;32 and then you will never do anything fierce, and so will come to the end of your life without having to repent, or to be called to account.

Epictetus, Discourses, Fragment 25, translated by W. A. Oldfather (1925–1928). The Stoic Library.