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Spend time with people and you will either become like them or bring them round to your own ways

Drawn from what Epictetus said

Do you become the people you spend time with?under our view: The people you spend time with will make you more like them

What Epictetus actually said

  1. Epictetus Greek Stoic philosopher (born in the 50s CE
    If a man has frequent intercourse with others either for talk, or drinking together, or generally for social purposes, he must either become like them, or change them to his own fashion. For if a man places a piece of quenched charcoal close to a piece that is burning, either the quenched charcoal will quench the other, or the burning charcoal will light that which is quenched.

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