"Quotations" - читать интересную книгу автора (Epictetus)

To establish true propositions, to remove the false, to withhold
assent from those which are not plain.
-- Epictetus, The Discourses (55-135b.c.)



where a man is against his will, there he is in prison.
-- Epictetus, The Discourses (55-135b.c.)



for as to intelligence you are not inferior to
the gods nor less; for the magnitude of intelligence is not measured
by length nor yet by height, but by thoughts.
-- Epictetus, The Discourses (55-135b.c.)



I do not care. "I
will show you that I am master." You cannot do that. Zeus has set me
free: do you think that he intended to allow his own son to be
enslaved?
-- Epictetus, The Discourses (55-135b.c.)



Epaphroditus had a shoemaker whom he sold because he was good for
nothing. This fellow by some good luck was bought by one of Caesar's
men, and became Caesar's shoemaker. You should have seen what
respect Epaphroditus paid to him: "How does the good Felicion do, I
pray?" Then if any of us asked, "What is master doing?" the answer "He
is consulting about something with Felicion." Had he not sold the
man as good for nothing? Who then made him wise all at once? This is
an instance of valuing something else than the things which depend
on the will.
-- Epictetus, The Discourses (55-135b.c.)



What then is education? Education is the learning how to adapt the
natural precognitions to the particular things conformably to
nature; and then to distinguish that of things some are in our
power, but others are not; in our power are will and all acts which
depend on the will; things not in our power are the body, the parts of
the body, possessions, parents, brothers, children, country, and,
generally, all with whom we live in society.
-- Epictetus, The Discourses (55-135b.c.)