An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others.ĭon’t demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.Įpictetus, like Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl, believed in the fundamental ability to choose how you respond. … When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves that is, to our own principles. Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Work, therefore to be able to say to every harsh appearance, “You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.” And then examine it by those rules which you have, and first, and chiefly, by this: whether it concerns the things which are in our own control, or those which are not and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Some things are in our control and others not. Epictetus’ practical precepts might change your life. The Enchiridion (“The Manual”) is a short read on stoic advice for living.
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