Epictetus · The Handbook
Chapter 37
English
If you take on a role beyond your capacity, you both disgrace yourself in that one and abandon the one you could have filled.
Greek
ἐὰν ὑπὲρ δύναμιν ἀναλάβῃς τι πρόσωπον, καὶ ἐν τούτῳ ἠσχημόνησας καί, ὃ ἠδύνασο ἐκπληρῶσαι, παρέλιπες.
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