“What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”

Epictetus (50-135), Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygiaand lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece for the rest of his life.