Every day you should put the ideas in action that protect a… - Epictetus

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Every day you should put the ideas in action that protect against attachment to externals such as individual people, places or institutions – even your own body.

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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 • Epiktetos

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

فلتبدأ من أصغر الأشياء: انسكَبَ شيءٌ من الزيت؟ سُرِق النبيذ؟ قل: «هذا ثمنُ خُلوِّ البال وصفاء النفس، ولكلِّ شيء ثمن.» إذا ناديتَ خادمك، فاذكر أنَّه قد لا يُجيبك. وإذا أجابك فقد لا يُنفِّذ ما تريده. غير أنه ليس من السطوة بحيث يكون بمقدور مثله أن يعكِّر صفوك.

endurance of labour, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready to listen to slander.

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