For on these matters we should not trust the multitude who say that none ought to be educated but the free, but rather to philosophers, who say that the educated alone are free.
-- Epictetus (c. 55 - c. 135 AD), born a slave, Greek Stoic philosopher. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known. The word epiktetos in Greek simply means "acquired", Discourses, Book II, ch. 1, § 22
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