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Enchiridion (Handbook)

early 2nd century CEStoicismClassical (200 BCE – 600 CE)EpictetusBook

A short handbook of Epictetus's central teachings, compiled by his student Arrian. It opens by distinguishing what is within our control from what is not.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchiridion_of_Epictetus

Quotes (4)

“Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.”
— Epictetus, Enchiridion VIII, tr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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VerifiedsourceMaxim: Happiness is reality minus expectations.Translation: public-domain translation (Higginson)
“It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortunes; of one entering upon instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.”
— Epictetus, Enchiridion V, tr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
VerifiedsourceMaxim: Look to your own faults before judging others.Translation: public-domain translation (Higginson)
“If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.”
— Epictetus, Enchiridion XXXVII, tr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
VerifiedsourceMaxim: People rise to their level of incompetence.Translation: public-domain translation (Higginson)
“Be mostly silent, or speak merely what is needful, and in few words.”
— Epictetus, Enchiridion XXXIII, tr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
VerifiedsourceMaxim: Speak kindly, or keep silent.Translation: public-domain translation (Higginson)