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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Epictetus
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XXVI
True instruction is this:—to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.
XXVII
Have this thought ever present with thee, when thou losest any outward thing, what thou gainest in its stead; and if this be the more precious, say not, I have suffered loss.
XXVIII
Concerning the Gods, there are who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself nor has forethought for anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fo. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Very insightful. I liked this one a lot.
Epictetus is one of my favorite philosophers!
4/5
Stoic philosophical musing that has a lot in common with Judaeo-Christian thought and can hold its own with any contemporary self-help manual.
It has all of Epictetus’ philosophy and attitudes, but the translation shows its age a little too much for today’s reader. Better to find a more recent translation.
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