Цитаты из книги автора Epictetus The Enchiridion

When you call your ser­vant, it is pos­si­ble that he may not come; or, if he does, he may not do what you want. But he is by no means of such im­por­tance that it should be in his power to give you any dis­tur­bance.

What, then, is your own? Only your re­ac­tion to the ap­pear­ances of things. Thus, when you be­have con­formably to na­ture in re­ac­tion to how things ap­pear, you will be proud with rea­son; for you will take pride in some good of your own.

If a horse should be pride­ful and say, “I am hand­some,” it would be sup­port­able.

But when you are pride­ful, and say, “I have a hand­some horse,” know that you are proud of what is, in fact, only the good of the horse.

Don’t be pride­ful with any ex­cel­lence that is not your own.

Some who is per­fectly in­structed will place blame nei­ther on oth­ers nor on him­self.

Men are dis­turbed, not by things, but by the prin­ci­ples and no­tions which they form con­cern­ing things.

The things in our con­trol are by na­ture free, un­re­strained, un­hin­dered; but those not in our con­trol are weak, slav­ish, re­strained, be­long­ing to oth­ers.

Some things are in our con­trol and oth­ers not. Things in our con­trol are opin­ion, pur­suit, de­sire, aver­sion, and, in a word, what­ever are our own ac­tions. Things not in our con­trol are body, prop­erty, rep­u­ta­tion, com­mand, and, in one word, what­ever are not our own ac­tions.

He does not know my other faults, else he would not have men­tioned only these.”
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