Whatever things (rules) are proposed1 to you [for the
conduct of life] abide by them, as if they were laws, as if
you would be guilty of impiety if you transgressed any of
them. And whatever any man shall say about you, do
not attend to it: for this is no affair of yours.
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1 This may mean,' what is proposed to you by philosophers,' and especially in this little book. Sechweighaeuser thinks that it may mean 'what you have proposed to yourself:' but he is inclined to understand it simply, 'what is proposed above, or taught above.'
The Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheridion and Fragments. Epictetus. George Long. translator. London. George Bell and Sons. 1890.
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