Epictetus

Name: Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and Fragments, Book 2 — Chapter 18
Author: Epictetus

Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian… (1925)

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“Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and Fragments, Book 2 — Chapter 18”, published in 1925, is a work by Epictetus. It explores elements such as impression, habit and faculty.

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Epictetus, Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian… (1925)

“ But do you rather introduce and set over against it some fair and noble impression, and throw out this filthy one. And if you form the habit of taking such exercises, you will see what mighty shoulders you develop, what sinews, what vigour; but as it is, you have merely your philosophic quibbles, and nothing more.
The man who exercises himself against such external impressions is the true athlete in training. Hold, unhappy man; be not swept along with your impressions! Great is the struggle, divine the task; the prize is a kingdom, freedom, serenity, peace. ”

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Epictetus, Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian… (1925)

“ Certain imprints and weals are left behind on the mind, and unless a man erases them perfectly, the next time he is scourged upon the old scars, he has weals no longer but wounds. If, therefore, you wish not to be hot-tempered, do not feed your habit, set before it nothing on which it can grow. As the first step, keep quiet and count the days on which you have not been angry. "I used to be angry every day, after that every other day, then every third, and then every fourth day." If you go as much as thirty days without a fit of anger, sacrifice to God. ”

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Epictetus, Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian… (1925)

“ Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running. If you wish to be a good reader, read; if you wish to be a good writer, write. If you should give up reading for thirty days one after the other, and be engaged in something else, you will know what happens. So also if you lie in bed for ten days, get up and try to take a rather long walk, and you will see how wobbly your legs are. In general, therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it ”

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Epictetus, Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian… (1925)

“ For when once you conceive a desire for money, if reason be applied to bring you to a realization of the evil, both the passion is stilled and our governing principle is restored to its original authority; but if you do not apply a remedy, your governing principle does not revert to its previous condition, but, on being aroused again by the corresponding external impression, it bursts into the flame of desire more quickly than it did before. ”

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Epictetus, Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian… (1925)

“ When you have yielded to someone in carnal intercourse, do not count merely this one defeat, but count also the fact that you have fed your incontinence, you have given it additional strength. For it is inevitable that some habits and faculties should, in consequence of the corresponding actions, spring up, though they did not exist before, and that others which were already there should be intensified and made strong. ”

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Epictetus, Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian… (1925)

“ But if you be once defeated and say that by and by you will overcome, and then a second time do the same thing, know that at last you will be in so wretched a state and so weak that by and by you will not so much as notice that you are doing wrong, but you will even begin to offer arguments in justification of your conduct ”

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Epictetus, Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian… (1925)

“ if you wish to be a good writer, write. ”

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Epictetus, Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian… (1925)

“ But, to begin with, be not swept off your feet, I beseech you, by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Wait for me a little, O impression; ”

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Epictetus, Epictetus, the Discourses as reported by Arrian… (1925)

“ And if this happens over and over again, the next stage is that a callousness results and the infirmity strengthens the avarice. 10For the man who has had a fever, and then recovered, is not the same as he was before the fever, unless he has experienced a complete cure. ”

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