The Enchiridion
Epictetus·about AD 125·102 pages
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“Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.”
Epictetus · chosen by someone who read it first
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A ruled margin beside the text, four lines at the foot of every page, and the Notes leave their last page open under the thing they ask you to do. A chapter opening and a Notes close, as printed.
You cannot control what happens, and you are wrecked by what you think about it. Epictetus's first sentence divides the world in two, and everything else follows from it.
Epictetus was born a slave in Phrygia and was lame from an early age. Freed after Nero died, expelled from Rome by Domitian, he taught in exile and wrote nothing at all: a student named Arrian took down his lectures, and this is the handbook Arrian made of them.
Its first sentence divides the world in two and everything else follows from it. Enchiridion means what is held in the hand: the Greek used it for a handbook and for a dagger both.
- OneIn Our Power11
- TwoI Have Restored It21
- ThreeAct Well the Part29
- FourYou Must be One Man37
- FivePrescribe Some Character49
- SixAs the Foot is of the Shoe61
- SevenShow the Acts71
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Black covers, a metal emblem, one range across every spine. We made the outside beautiful because of what happens on the inside. A life works the same way: put the interior in order and the rest of it follows. If that is the work you are already doing, these were made for you.
Every one closes with the Notes, and a page left open under the thing they ask you to do. Read the rest with a pen.