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Discourses, Books 3-4. The Enchiridion (Loeb Classical Library #218) QUOTES

Discourses, Books 3-4. The Enchiridion (Loeb Classical Library #218) QUOTES

1 " First to those universal principles I have spoken of: these you must keep at command, and without them neither sleep nor rise, drink nor eat nor deal with men: the principle that no one can control another's will, and that the will alone is the sphere of good and evil. "

― Epictetus , Discourses, Books 3-4. The Enchiridion (Loeb Classical Library #218)

2 " We must consider what is the time for singing, what the time for play, and in whose presence: what will be unsuited to the occasion; whether our companions are to despise us, or we to despise ourselves: when to jest, and whom to mock at: and on what occasion to be conciliatory and to whom: in a word, how one ought to maintain one's character in society. Wherever you swerve from any of these principles, you suffer loss at once; not loss from without, but issuing from the very act itself. "

― Epictetus , Discourses, Books 3-4. The Enchiridion (Loeb Classical Library #218)

3 " Is this all the habit you acquired when you studied philosophy, to look to others and to hope for nothing from yourself and your own acts? Lament therefore and mourn, and when you eat be fearful that you will have nothing to eat to-morrow. Tremble for your wretched slaves, lest they should steal, or run away, or die. Live in this spirit, and never cease to live so, you who never came near philosophy, except in name, and disgraced its principles so far as in you lies, by showing them to be useless and unprofitable to those who take them up. "

― Epictetus , Discourses, Books 3-4. The Enchiridion (Loeb Classical Library #218)