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...Epictetus (Greek: Επίκτητος; c.55–c.135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known - the word epiktetos in Greek simply means acquired. Epictetus spent his youth as a slave i...

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...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, ... ...olden S The Golden S The Golden S The Golden S ayin ayin ayin ayin ayings of Epictetus gs of Epictetus gs of Epictetus gs of Epictetus gs of Epictetus... ...not thy destination, but only lay on the way thither. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus 3 Nay, but it is a proper place. And how many more of the s... ...re his very eyes. VI VI VI VI VI But what saith God? Had it been possible, Epictetus, I would have made both that body of thine and thy possessions ... ...ittle thing? God forbid! Be content then therewith! The Golden Sayings of Epictetus 4 And so I pray the Gods. VII VII VII VII VII What saith Antis... ...VIII VIII Aye, but to debase myself thus were unworthy of me. That, said Epictetus, is for you to consider, not for me. You know yourself what yo... ...n as the multitude? Then were I no longer the purple. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus 5 IX IX IX IX IX If a man could be throughly penetrated, as he... ...come a thief: in exchange for it, to become faithless. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus 6 XIII XIII XIII XIII XIII But God hath introduced Man to be a... ...nstead of moaning and wailing over what comes to pass? The Golden Sayings of Epictetus 7 XV XV XV XV XV If what philosophers say of the kinship of Go...

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...ight and Wrong Chapter 5 Moral Philosophy: A Brief Introduction 47 Chapter 6 Plato and Aristotle: Idealism and Realism 55 Chapter 7 Epicurus and Epictetus: Pleasure and Apathy 65 Chapter 8 Aquinas and Descartes: Faith and Reason 72 Chapter 9 Hume, Bentham and Mill: Subjectivism and Utilitarianism 82 Chapter 10 Kant and Schopenhauer: Idealism and Pessimism 90 C...

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... by cultivating a calm acceptance of the vicissitudes of life. Among the Stoics of the Greek and Roman world were its founder, Zeno, the former slave Epictetus, and the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. George Stock discusses not only the Stoic ethics, but also less well-known aspects of Stoicism, such as its division of the branches of philosophy, its account of logic, and i...

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...TTITUDE I am upset not b!f events but rather b!f the wa!f I view them. - Epictetus, first centu/!/ AD MANY PEOPLE tell me it's easy for me to be po...

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...on hath allotted us no other portion but presumption. It is therefore (as Epictetus saith) that man hath nothing that is properly his owne but the u...

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...st in public affairs; and Aesop, like the philosophers Phaedo, Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile...

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...fects, the symbols of which exist in two grand figures of ancient slavery, Epictetus and Spartacus,—hatred and evil feelings on the one hand, resignat...

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...nic School was still active enough? He says elsewhere: “The Enchiridion of Epictetus I had ever with me, often as my sole rational companion; and regr...

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... perhaps too often.” “Like Epicurus, my friend, still like Epicurus; I repeat, we are Epicureans, and that is very amusing.” “Y es, but I am afraid th... ...; he who, being beaten by his master, said to him, grumbling a little it is true, but without being angry, ‘I will lay a wager you have broken my leg!... ...ranted, but he might easily become the fashion by only changing his name into that of Colbert.” 412 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 “Bah!” replied La Fonta...

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...ll me, then, for my private good, how, without aid from the noble cripple, Epictetus, you have ar- rived at his heroic sang-froid in misfortune.” At t...

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...the rod, of which I can really give you no idea unless I compare myself to Epictetus under the yoke of a malicious child. When we played for money his...

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...unning devils!” he reiter- ated, with a slight tipsy slur. “That be-fouled Epictetus wasn’t the last of ‘em—nor the first. Oh, not by any means, not b...

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...was the nickname bestowed on Contenson by Peyrade, and well merited by the Epictetus among police agents. The name of Contenson, alas! hid one of the ...

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...F THEM THEM THEM THEM THEM MEN (says an ancient Greek sentence)—[Manual of Epictetus, c. 10.]—are tormented with the opinions they have of things and ...

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..., insensibly, to her slave. At last, however, Diane grew impatient with an Epictetus of love; and when she thought she had trained him to the utmost c...

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...sages of the world – Krishna, Buddha, Lao tse, Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and among the moderns, Rousseau, Pas cal, Kant...

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...air opportunities with even a next door neighbor, and (this remark is from Epictetus) it is precisely at that time when men are most anxious to throw ...

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...tanic School was still active enough? He says elsewhere: “The Enchiridion of Epictetus I had ever with me, often as my sole rational companion; and re...

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...e absolutely no interest in classics such as Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, or Pascal, and this inability to distinguish the great from the ...

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...ed his breeches; for he used to pay his skin with sound bastinadoes. I saw Epictetus there, most gallantly apparelled after the French fashion, sittin... ...our of Mercury, therewith to buy a few onions for his supper. No, no, said Epictetus, I do not use in my almsgiving to bestow farthings. Hold, thou va... ...he first quality; at which I wondered much, till I was told it was that of Epictetus, for which three thousand drachmas had been formerly refused. Mar...

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...this kind of prayer infuses. Such a spirit was that of Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus.[315] It is that of mind-curers, of the tran- scendentalists, and... ...l quote a page from one of Martineau’s sermons:— [315] “Good Heaven!” says Epictetus, “any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Pr...

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...on the contrary, I had already conceived some affection, and even procured Epictetus, whom I studied with much interest. My friend unwillingly let me ...

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...ysias and Isocrates, of Plato and Aristotle, down to those of Plutarch and Epictetus, Suetonius, and Quintilian. To impose upon any man the necessity ...