[8] Consider who it is that you praise when you praise people dispassionately: is it those who are just, or unjust? — ‘Those who are just.’ — The tem… - Epictetus
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[8] Consider who it is that you praise when you praise people dispassionately: is it those who are just, or unjust? — ‘Those who are just.’ — The temperate or the intemperate? — ‘The temperate.’ — The self-controlled or the dissolute? — ‘The self-controlled.’ [9] — You should know, then, that if you make yourself a person of that kind, you’ll be making yourself beautiful; but if you neglect these virtues, you’re bound to be ugly, whatever techniques you adopt to make yourself appear beautiful.
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Epictetus
Epictetus (c. 55 – c. 135 AD), born a slave, was a Greek Stoic philosopher. His words were recorded by his student Arrian in the Discourses and Enchiridion written in the early 2nd-century.
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Native Name:
ΕΠΙΚΤΗΤΟΣ
Alternative Names:
Epictetus of Hierapolis
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If you find yourself acting to impress others, or avoiding action out of fear of what they might think, you have left the path.
So – a true philosopher is under no obligation to respect vulgar opinion as to what is religious or irreligious, what is just or unjust. What dishonour he brings on philosophers in general if he did! That’s not what you learned here.
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