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Date: 101

One should be cautious in his intimacies because, "[f]or 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."

— Epictetus (c. 55-c.135)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.