Epictetus,
Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian…
(1925)
“ For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of hardship or death. ”
Epictetus
Summary
“Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and Fragments, Book 2 — Chapter 1”, published in 1925, is a work by Epictetus. It explores elements such as caution, confidence and turmoil.
Quotes from Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian… (Epictetus)
Epictetus,
Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian…
(1925)
“ If we demanded that a man should employ both caution and confidence in regard to the same things, then we would be justly charged with uniting qualities that are not to be united. But, as a matter of fact, what is there strange about the saying? For if the statements which have often been made and often proved are sound, namely that "the nature of the good as well as of the evil lies in a use of the impressions of the senses, but the things which lie outside the province of the moral purpose admit neither the nature of the evil, nor the nature of the good" ”
Epictetus,
Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian…
(1925)
“ Our confidence ought, therefore, to be turned toward death, and our caution toward the fear of death; whereas we do just the opposite—in the face of death we turn to flight, but about the formation of a judgement on death we show carelessness, disregard, and unconcern. ”
