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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

8938 Epitetus AD 50- 138 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:8938
AUTHOR:Epictetus (A.D. c. 50–c. 138)
QUOTATION:O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?
ATTRIBUTION:Discourses. Chap. xiii.