"Don't you know life is like a military campaign? One must serve on watch, another in reconnaissance, another on the front line . . . So it is for us - each person's life is a kind of battle, and a long and varied one too. You must keep watch like a soldier and do everything commanded . . . You have been stationed in a key post, not some lowly place, and not for a short time but for life."
~ Epictetus, Discourses, 3.24.31-36
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