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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Epictetus
Born: 55
Died: 135 (aged 80)
Bio: Epictetus was a Greek speaking 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.
Known for:
- Discourses of Epictetus
- Enchiridion of Epictetus (125 AD)
- Discourses and selected writings
- Golden Sayings of Epictetus
- A manual for living
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