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02 - The Enchiridion - Epictetus · Logic Library

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  Chapter eleven. Never say of anything I lost it, but say I gave
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  it back. Has your child died it was given back? Has your wife
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  died she was given back? Has your estate been taken from you? Was
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  not this also given back? But you say he who took it from me
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  is wicked? What does it matter to you through whom the giver asked it
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  back? As long as he gives it, you take care of it,
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  but not as your own. Treat it as passers by treat an inn Chapter
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  twelve. If you wish to make progress, abandon reasonings of this sort.
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  If I neglect my affairs, I shall have nothing to live on. If
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  I do not punish my son, he will be wicked. For it is
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  better to die of hunger so that you be free from pain and free from
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  fear, than to live in plenty and be troubled in mind. It is
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  better for your son to be wicked than for you to be miserable. Wherefore,
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  begin with little things. Is your drop of oil spilt? Is your
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  sup of wine stolen? Say to yourself, this is the price paid for
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  freedom from passion. This is the price of a quiet mind. Nothing can
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  be had without a price. When you call your slave boy. Reflect that
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  he may not be able to hear you, and if he hears you,
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  he may not be able to do anything you want. But he is not
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  so well off that it rests with him to give you peace of mind.
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  Chapter thirteen. If you wish to make progress, you must be content in
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  external matters to seem a fool and a simpleton. Do not wish men to
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  think you know anything. And if any should think you to be somebody,
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  distrust yourself. For know that it is not easy to keep your will in
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  accord with nature and at the same time keep outward things. If you attend
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  to one, you must needs to neglect the other. Chapter fourteen. It
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  is silly to want your children, and your wife and your friends to live
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  forever, for that means that you want what is not in your control to
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  be in your control, and what is not your own to be yours.
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  In the same way, if you want your servant to make no mistakes,
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  you are a fool, for you want vice not to be vice, but
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  something different. But if you want not to be disappointed in your will to
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  get, you can attain to that exercise yourself. Then in what lies in
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  your power, each man's master is the man who has authority over what he
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  wishes or does not wish to secure the one or to take away the other.
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  Let him then, who wishes to be free, not wish for anything
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  or avoid anything that depends on others or else, he is bound to be
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  a slave. Chapter fifteen. Remember that you must behave in life as you
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  would at a banquet. A dish is handed round and comes to you.
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  Put out your hand and take it politely it passes you, do not stop
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  it. It has not reached you. Do not be impatient to get it,
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  but wait till your turn comes. Bear yourself thus towards children, wife,
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  office, wealth, and one day you will be worthy to banquet with
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  the gods. But if when they are set before you, you do not
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  take them but despise them, then you shall not only share the god's banquet,
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  but shall share their rule. For by doing so, Diogenes and Heraclitus
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  and men like them were called divine and deserve the name. Chapter sixteen.
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  When you see a man shedding tears and sorrow for a child abroad or dead,
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  or for loss of property, beware that you are not carried away by
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  the impression that it is outward ills that make him miserable. Keep this thought
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  by you distresses him is not the event, for that does not to stress
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  another, but his judgment on the event. Therefore, do not hesitate to
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  sympathize with him so far as words go, and if it's so chance,
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  even to groan with him, but take heed that you do not also groan
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  in your inner being. Chapter seventeen. Remember that you are an actor in
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  a play, and the playwright chooses the manner of it. If he wants
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  it short, it is short, If long it is long. If he
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  wants you to act a poor man, you must act the part with all
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  your powers. And so if your part be a cripple, or a magistrate,
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  or a plain man, for your business is to act the character that
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  has given you, and act it well. The choice of the cast is
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  in Other's chapter eighteen, when a raven croaks with evil omen. Let not
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  the impression carry you away, but straight away distinguish your own mind and say,
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  these importance mean nothing to me, but only to my bit of a
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  body, or my bit of property, or name, or my children or
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  my wife. But for me, all omens are favorable if I will for
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  whatever the issue may be it is in my power to benefit therefrom Chapter nineteen.
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  You can be invincible if you never enter on a contest where victory is
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  not in your power. Beware then, that when you see a man raised
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  to honor, or to great power or high repute, you do not let
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  your impression carry you away. For if the reality of good lies in what
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  is in our power, there is no room for envy or jealousy, and
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  you will not wish to be pritur or prefect or counsel, but to be
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  free. And there is but one way to freedom, to despise what is
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  not in our power. Chapter twenty. Remember that foul words or blows in
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  themselves are no outrage, but your judgment that they are so. So when
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  anyone makes you angry, know that it is your own thought that has angered
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  you. Wherefore, make it your first endeavor not to let your impressions carry
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  you away, For if once you gain time and delay, you will find
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  it easier to control yourself. End of Chapters eleven through twenty