The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments |
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Page 114 - Why do you not know whence you came? will you not remember when you are eating, who you are who eat and whom you feed? When you are in conjunction with a woman, will you not remember who you are who do this thing?
Page 48 - No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Page 375 - ... to be your own, you will be hindered, you will lament, you will ^ be disturbed, you will...
Page 67 - DIFFICULTIES are things that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end ? That you may be an Olympic conqueror ; and this cannot be without toil.
Page 29 - Reason — why may not such a one call himself a citizen of the world ? Why not a son of God? And why shall he fear anything that happens among men ? Shall kindred to Caesar, or any other of the great at Rome, enable a man to live secure, above contempt, and void of all fear whatever; and shall not the having God for our Maker and Father, and Guardian, free us from griefs and terrors ? THE ESSENCE OF GOOD.
Page 154 - I used to be angry every day ; now every other day ; then every third and fourth day ; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.
Page 39 - And to you this was the very cause of your then running away, that you chose to do so; and on the other side, if you should stay with her, the reason will be the same. And now you are going to Rome because you choose; and if you should change your mind, you will not go thither.
Page 398 - You are no longer a boy, but a grown man. If, therefore, you will be negligent, and slothful, and always add procrastination to procrastination, purpose to purpose, and fix day after day, in which you will attend to yourself, you will insensibly continue without proficiency ; and living and dying, persevere in being one of the vulgar. This instant then, think yourself worthy of living as a man grown up, and a proficient. Let whatever appears to be the best, be to you an inviolable law.
Page 156 - Appearance, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are, and what you represent. Let me try you.
Page 379 - I have restored it." Is your Child dead? It is restored. Is your Wife dead? She is restored. Is your Estate taken away? Well : and is not that likewise restored ? " But he who took it away is a bad Man." What is it to you, by whose hands He, who gave it, hath demanded it back again ? While He gives you to possess it, take care of it ; but as of something not your own, as Passengers do of an Inn.