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The Enchiridion, or Handbook
The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus | Epictetus
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The Enchiridion, or Handbook was written by a student of Epictetus in the 2nd century. It is a short guide to ethical living, and its focus is more practical than the metaphysical treatises of earlier Greek philosophers. It assumes (…more)
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GatheringBooks
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#QuotsyDec18 Day 5: A #Banquet of olives and Epictetus‘ words of wisdom.

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Alurayne
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Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Death, for instance, is not terrible, else it would have appeared so to Socrates. But the terror consists in our notion of death that it is terrible. 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.