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Epictetus: Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, —…

Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, — as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.

In today’s wordsEvery habit and ability is strengthened by repeating the matching action: walking builds the habit of walking, running the habit of running.

EpictetusCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (10th ed., rev. 1919)

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