Цитаты из книги автора Epictetus The Enchiridion

The con­di­tion and char­ac­ter­is­tic of a philoso­pher is that he ex­pects all hurt and ben­e­fit from him­self.

do you like­wise not show the­o­rems to the un­learned, but the ac­tions pro­duced by them af­ter they have been di­gested.

Thus, at an en­ter­tain­ment, don’t talk how per­sons ought to eat, but eat as you ought.

But you, af­ter all, are nei­ther prop­erty nor style.

Every­thing has two han­dles, the one by which it may be car­ried, the other by which it can­not.

When any per­son harms you, or speaks badly of you, re­mem­ber that he acts or speaks from a sup­po­si­tion of its be­ing his duty. Now, it is not pos­si­ble that he should fol­low what ap­pears right to you, but what ap­pears so to him­self.

Then bring to your mind both points of time: that in which you will en­joy the plea­sure, and that in which you will re­pent and re­proach your­self af­ter you have en­joyed it; and set be­fore you, in op­po­si­tion to these, how you will be glad and ap­plaud your­self if you ab­stain.

You will then be hurt when you think you are hurt.

take no­tice, you will be­have like chil­dren who some­times play like wrestlers, some­times glad­i­a­tors, some­times blow a trum­pet, and some­times act a tragedy when they have seen and ad­mired these shows. Thus you too will be at one time a wrestler, at an­other a glad­i­a­tor, now a philoso­pher, then an or­a­tor; but with your whole soul, noth­ing at all.

As a mark is not set up for the sake of miss­ing the aim, so nei­ther does the na­ture of evil ex­ist in the world.