Epiktétos: Citáty v angličtine (page 8)

“Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.”

“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”

“Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."”

“Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.”

“My brother ought not to have treated me thus.' True: but he must see to that. However he may treat me, I must deal rightly by him. This is what lies with me, what none can hinder.”

“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”

“For he who is unmusical is a child in music; he who is without letters is a child in learning; he who is untaught, is a child in life.”

“"But to be hanged—is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.”

“Till then these sound opinions have taken firm root in you, and you have gained a measure of strength for your security, I counsel you to be cautious in associating with the uninstructed. Else whatever impressions you receive upon the tablets of your mind in the School will day by day melt and disappear, like wax in the sun. Withdraw then somewhere far from the sun, while you have these waxen sentiments.”

“Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.”

“Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? "What sinews are those?" — A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised, careful resolutions; unerring decisions.”

“No man is free who is not master of himself. ”

“Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not. If your brother sin against you lay not hold of it by the handle of his injustice, for by that it may not be borne: but rather by this, that he is your brother, the comrade of your youth; and thus you will lay hold on it so that it may be borne.”

“For on these matters we should not trust the multitude who say that none ought to be educated but the free, but rather to philosophers, who say that the educated alone are free.”

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.”

“One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”

“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”

“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.”

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”