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Epictetus
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher, born a slave in Hierapolis in Phrygia, who taught in Rome and later at Nicopolis in Greece. He wrote nothing himself; his student Arrian recorded his teaching in the Discourses and the short handbook known as the Enchiridion.
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“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 HigginsonWatch on YouTube: Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness ↗Dan Gilbert discusses this idea“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“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“Be mostly silent, or speak merely what is needful, and in few words.”
— Epictetus, Enchiridion XXXIII, tr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson