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Epictetus
Enchiridion of Epictetus Chapter 13
Chapter 13 of 53
Canonical reference 13
Ancient Greek
Heinrich Schenkl, Epicteti dissertationes ab Arriano digestae (1916)
εἰ προκόψαι θέλεις, ὑπόμεινον ἕνεκα τῶν ἐκτὸς ἀνόητος δόξας καὶ ἠλίθιος, μηδὲν βούλου δοκεῖν ἐπίστασθαι· κἂν δόξῃς τις εἶναί τισιν, ἀπίστει σεαυτῷ. ἴσθι γὰρ ὅτι οὐ ῥᾴδιον τὴν προαίρεσιν τὴν σεαυτοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ἔχουσαν φυλάξαι καὶ τὰ ἐκτός, ἀλλὰ τοῦ ἑτέρου ἐπιμελούμενον τοῦ ἑτέρου ἀμελῆσαι πᾶσα ἀνάγκη.
English
George Long · George Long, The Encheiridion (1877)
If you would improve, submit to be considered without sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to some to be a person of importance, distrust yourself. For you should know that it is not easy both to keep your will in a condition conformable to nature and (to secure) external things: but if a man is careful about the one, it is an absolute necessity that he will neglect the other.
French
Jean-Marie Guyau · Jean-Marie Guyau, Manuel d’Épictète (1875)
Veux-tu avancer dans la sagesse, souffre, à l’égard des choses extérieures, de passer pour fou et imbécile . Consens à paraître ne rien savoir ; et si quelques-uns te remarquent, défie-toi de toi-même. Sache qu’il n’est pas facile de garder à la fois et ton libre-arbitre conforme à la nature et les biens du dehors ; mais il est de toute nécessité, si tu t’occupes d’une de ces choses, que tu négliges l’autre .
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Nature
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