The Handbook

Epictetus

Epictetus. The Works of Epictetus, His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, translator. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1890.

Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand:—

  1. Conduct me, Zeus, and thou, O Destiny,
  2. Wherever your decrees have fixed my lot.
  3. I follow cheerfully; and, did I not,
  4. Wicked and wretched, I must follow still.
Cleanthes, in Diogenes Laertius, quoted also by Seneca, Epistle 107.- H.
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  1. Whoe’er yields properly to Fate is deemed
  2. Wise among men, and knows the laws of Heaven.
Euripides, Fragments.—H. And this third:—
O Crito, if it thus pleases the gods, thus let it be.
Plato, Crito,17-H.
Anytus and Melitus may kill me indeed; but hurt me they cannot.
Apology, 18. -H.
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