The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments, Volume 1Rivington, 1807 |
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... restrained Good and Evil to Virtue and Vice alone ; and excluded all Externals from any Share in human Happiness , which they made entirely depend- ent on a right Choice . From this Regulation of the Desires and Aversions follows that ...
... restrained Good and Evil to Virtue and Vice alone ; and excluded all Externals from any Share in human Happiness , which they made entirely depend- ent on a right Choice . From this Regulation of the Desires and Aversions follows that ...
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... restrained as they ought , there will be nothing to mislead us in Action . § . 6. The last Topic , and the Completion of The Stoics define these Terms : the one , a Motion , by which we are carried toward some Object ; the other , a Mo ...
... restrained as they ought , there will be nothing to mislead us in Action . § . 6. The last Topic , and the Completion of The Stoics define these Terms : the one , a Motion , by which we are carried toward some Object ; the other , a Mo ...
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... restrained , never be hindered ; thou wilt not groan , wilt not complain , wilt not flatter any one . How then ! Do all these advantages seem small to thee ? Heaven forbid ! Let them suffice thee then , and thank the gods . " § . 4. But ...
... restrained , never be hindered ; thou wilt not groan , wilt not complain , wilt not flatter any one . How then ! Do all these advantages seem small to thee ? Heaven forbid ! Let them suffice thee then , and thank the gods . " § . 4. But ...
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... restraining them . Having these things free , and your own , will you make no use of them , nor consider what you have received , nor from whom ? But sit groaning and lamenting , some of you , blind to him who gave them , and not ac ...
... restraining them . Having these things free , and your own , will you make no use of them , nor consider what you have received , nor from whom ? But sit groaning and lamenting , some of you , blind to him who gave them , and not ac ...
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... restrain What ! then , is Freedom Distraction ? By no means for Madness and Freedom are incompatible . But I would have whatever appears to me to be right , happen ; however it comes to appear so . You are mad : you have lost your ...
... restrain What ! then , is Freedom Distraction ? By no means for Madness and Freedom are incompatible . But I would have whatever appears to me to be right , happen ; however it comes to appear so . You are mad : you have lost your ...
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Action Admetus Affairs Agamemnon Amphiaraus Antisthenes Appearances of Things assent Athens bear belongs Body Cæsar CHAP Children Chrysippus chuse concerning conformably to Nature conjecture consider contrary Cynic Death dependent on Choice Desires and Aversions Diogenes Discourses Doctrine doth Epictetus Epicureans Epicurus Eriphyle esteem Eteocles Eurystheus Evil exercise Externals Faculty of Choice Father fear Fever Friend give gods Greek Gyaros happen happy hath hear Hence hindered Honour hurt judge Jupiter LAERT lament likewise live Mankind manner Master means Mind never Number Olympic Games Pain Palæstra Person Philoso Philosopher pity Pleasure Power Pre-conceptions preserve Principles proper racter Reason regard restrain Rome ruling Faculty seek Sense shew sick Slave Socrates Soul speak Stoics suffer suppose Syllogisms tell ther Thirty Tyrants Thou throw tion translation follows Tyrant Upton's Wife wish Words World Wretch Zeno
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Page 310 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content.
Page 310 - God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son...
Page 310 - And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his work shall be.
Page 78 - ... the Deity, and rehearse his benefits ? Ought we not, whether we dig, or plough, or eat, to sing this hymn to God ? Great is God, who has supplied us with these instruments to till the ground ; great is God, who has given us hands and organs of digestion ; who has given us to grow insensibly, to breathe in sleep.
Page 72 - When, then, you have shut the doors and made darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not; but God is within, and your Demon is within, and what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Page 69 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, what then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Page 310 - Doth it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch forth your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Thus do with regard to children, to a wife, to public posts, to riches, and you will be, some time or other, a worthy partner of the feasts of the gods.
Page 310 - ... in your way, but your thoughts ought to be bent towards the ship, and perpetually attentive lest the captain should call, and then you must leave all these things, that you may not...
Page 310 - Remember that thou art an actor in a play of such a kind as the teacher (author) may choose; if short, of a short one; if long, of a long one: if he wishes you to act the part of a poor man, see that you act the part naturally; if the part of a lame man, of a magistrate, of a private person, (do the same). For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part, belongs to another.
Page 345 - As it is better to lie straitened for room upon a little couch in health, than to toss upon a wide bed in sickness, so it is better to contract yourself within the compass of a small fortune and be happy, than to have a great one and be wretched.