Epiktet cytaty strona 5

„Nie usiłuj naginać biegu wydarzeń do swojej woli, ale naginaj wolę do biegu wydarzeń, a życie upłynie ci w pomyślności.”

„Opatrzność dała mężczyznom zarost, aby można ich było odróżnić od kobiet.”

„Śmierć sama w sobie nie jest straszna, lecz tylko mniemanie, że jest straszna, jest straszne.”

„Raz zobaczyć jakąś rzecz znaczy więcej, niż sto razy o niej słyszeć.”

„Najpierw naucz się znaczenia tego, co chcesz powiedzieć, a dopiero potem mów.”

„Czego szuka każdy człowiek??? Aby być bezpiecznym, szczęśliwym i bez przymusu robić to, na co ma ochotę.”

„Jest tylko jedna droga do szczęścia – przestać się martwić rzeczami, na które nie masz wpływu.”

„Zło to nie zdarzenie, które cię spotyka, lecz to, co robisz z tym zdarzeniem.”

„Cierp i panuj nad sobą.”

„Gdzie jest postęp? Jeśli ktokolwiek z was, wyrzekając się zewnętrzności, zwróci się ku swej woli, by ją ćwiczyć i doskonalić przez pracę oraz by uczynić ją zgodną z naturą, wzniosłą, wolną, niepodległą, niepohamowaną, wierną i skromną; jeśli nauczy się, że ten, kto pragnie lub unika rzeczy nieosiągalnych, nie jest ani wierny, ani wolny, lecz z konieczności musi poddać się ich żywiołowi i (…) ulec innym, którzy mają moc dostarczenia tego, czego pragnie lub zapobieżenia temu, czego chce uniknąć; (…) kiedy wstanie rano i jeśli przestrzega powyższych reguł, utrzymuje czystość i jada skromnie; podobnie, jeśli w każdej sprawie, która się pojawia, wypracowuje swoje główne zasady, jak biegacz, co skupia się na biegu – to jest to mężczyzna, który prawdziwie się rozwija i który nie poszukuje na darmo. Jeśli jednak skupi się na czytaniu książek, tylko w tym pracuje i podróżuje tylko po to, powiem mu, by wracał bezzwłocznie do domu i nie zaniedbywał swych obowiązków, gdyż to, czego szuka, jest niczym, a czymś jest coś zupełnie innego – badać, jak można uwolnić się od narzekań i jęków.”

Sustine et abstine

„Lekarstwem na przyzwyczajenie jest inne przyzwyczajenie.”

Źródło: O postępie lub poprawie

„Prawdziwym panem i królem jest jedynie mędrzec, który uwolnił się od namiętności i niczego nie potrzebuje.”

„Nic nie jest złe, co zgodne z naturą.”

„W czasie uczty nie opowiadaj, jak należy jeść, ale jedz, jak należy.”

„Powinniśmy mieć zasady gotowe do zastosowania w każdej okoliczności.”

„W żadnym razie nie nazywaj sam siebie filozofem i nie rozprawiaj wiele wśród tłumu o zasadach, ale postępuj stosownie do zasad. W czasie uczty, na przykład, nie opowiadaj, jak jeść należy, ale jedz, jak należy.”

“If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?”

Źródło: Mała księga cytatów, Halina Lipiec (red.), Oficyna Wydawnicza STON I, Radom 1994, ISBN 8390113228, s. 28.

Epiktet: Cytaty po angielsku

“In general, any methods of discipline applied to the body which tend to modify its desires or repulsions, are good—for ascetic ends. But if done for display, they betray at once a man who keeps an eye on outward show; who has an ulterior purpose, and is looking for spectators to shout, "Oh what a great man!" This is why Apollonius so well said: "If you are bent upon a little private discipline, wait till you are choking with heat one day—then take a mouthful of cold water, and spit it out again, and tell no man!"”

Book I, ch. 25.
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“Think you to be a philosopher while acting as you do? think you to go on thus eating, thus drinking, giving way in like manner to [your own] wrath and to displeasure? Nay you must watch, you must labor; overcome certain desires; quit your familiar friends, submit to be despised by your slave, to be held in derision by them that meet you, to take the lower place in all things, in office, in positions of authority, in courts of law. Weight these things fully, and then, if you will, lay to your hand; if as the price of these things you would gain Freedom, Tranquility, and passionless Serenity.”

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Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“The anger of an ape—the threat of a flatterer—these deserve equal regard.”

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Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“Dare to look up to God and say, "Make use of me for the future as Thou wilt. I am of the same mind; I am one with Thee. I refuse nothing which seems good to Thee. Lead me whither Thou wilt. Clothe me in whatever dress Thou wilt."”

Fragment xiii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.”

That we do not study to make Use of the established Principles concerning Good and Evil, Chap. xvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?”

Fragment vii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.”

Book I, ch. 20.
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“Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.”

Book I, ch. 20.
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“A man should also be prepared to be sufficient unto himself—to dwell within himself alone, even as God dwells with Himself alone… So should we also be able to converse with ourselves, to need none else beside, to sigh for no distraction, to bend our thoughts upon the Divine Administration, and how we stand related to all else; to observe how human accidents touched us of old, and how they touch us now; what things they are that still have power to hurt us, and how they may be cured and removed; to perfect what needs perfecting as Reason would direct.”

Fragment xii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.”

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Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.”

Book I, ch. 18.
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“Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.”

Fragment xvii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”

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The Enchiridion (c. 135)
Źródło: Enchiridion 5 http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html

“To you, all you have seems small: to me, all I have seems great. Your desire is insatiable, mine is satisfied. See children thrusting their hands into a narrow-necked jar, and striving to pull out the nuts and figs it contains: if they fill the hand, they cannot pull it out again, and then they fall to tears.—'Let go a few of them, and then you can draw out the rest!'—You, too, let your desire go! covet not many things, and you will obtain.”

Book I, ch. 15.
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“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”

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Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. What would you have, O man?”

Fragment vi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“Remember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting. When, therefore, any one provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you.”

Book I, ch. 21.
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“A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.”

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The Enchiridion (c. 135)

“Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.”

Fragment xvi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?”

Fragment xxi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.”

[tr. Elizabeth Carter]
Alternative translation: If someone turned your body over to just any person who happened to meet you, you would be angry. But are you not ashamed that you turn over your own faculty of judgment to whoever happens along, so that if he abuses you it is upset and confused? (28) http://books.google.com/books?id=9WRzxtTBkPgC&lpg=PA19&ots=hXwTf1JmW6&dq=%22'If%20someone%20turned%20your%20body%20over%20to%20just%20any%20person%20who%20happened%20to%20meet%20you%2C%20you%20would%20be%20angry.%22&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false tr. Nicholas P. White
The Enchiridion (c. 135)

“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”

Concerning the Epicureans, Chap. xx.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."”

Fragment xxii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.”

Book II, ch. 18, Reported in Bartlett's Quotations (1919) as "Be not hurried away by excitement, but say, "Semblance, wait for me a little".
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“My brother ought not to have treated me thus.' True: but he must see to that. However he may treat me, I must deal rightly by him. This is what lies with me, what none can hinder.”

Book I, ch. 17.
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“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”

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Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“For he who is unmusical is a child in music; he who is without letters is a child in learning; he who is untaught, is a child in life.”

Fragment xxxii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“"But to be hanged—is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.”

Book III, ch. 19. http://books.google.com/books?id=7e0NAAAAYAAJ&q=%22For+he+who+is+unmusical+is+a+child+in+music+he+who+is+without+letters+is+a+child+in+learning+he+who+is+untaught+is+a+child+in+life%22&pg=PA241#v=onepage <br class="br">Discourses

“Till then these sound opinions have taken firm root in you, and you have gained a measure of strength for your security, I counsel you to be cautious in associating with the uninstructed. Else whatever impressions you receive upon the tablets of your mind in the School will day by day melt and disappear, like wax in the sun. Withdraw then somewhere far from the sun, while you have these waxen sentiments.”

Book I, ch. 2.
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