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Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 1 (search)
Of progress or improvement.
HE who is making progress, having learned from philosophers that desire means the desire of good things, and
aversion means aversion from bad things; having learned
too that happinessto\ eu)/roun or h( eu)/roia is translated happiness. The notion is
that of flowing easily, as Seneca (Epp. 120) explains it: beata
vita, secundo defluens cursu. and tranquillity are not attainable by
man otherwise than by not failing to obtain what he desires,
and not falling into that which he would avoid; such a
man takes from himself desire altogether and defers it,u(perte/qeitai. The Latin translation is: in futurum tempus
rejicit. Wolf says: Significat id, quod in Enchiridio dictum est:
philosophies tironem non nimium tribuere sibi, sed quasi addubitantem expectare dum confirmetur judicium.
but he employs his aversion only on things which are dependent on his will. For if he attempts to avoid anything
independent of his will, he knows that sometimes he will
fall in with s
Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 1 (search)
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