HKB
1 passages · search this phrase →
Often appears with: will, choice, and freedom · the fear of death · poverty and virtue · fate, destiny, and necessity · death as no tragedy · banishment
Usually: argument (1) · confronting death (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1)
“Make no tragedy show of the thing, but speak of it as it is.” Epictetus (translated by George Long), A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with th · precept
He lists examples—poverty, power, banishment, and death—to show that external outcomes are manageable by maintaining right judgments, since nothing external can truly deprive a person of freedom.
value on the materials (things), but values the pleasure that he has with them and the occupation, what tyrant is then formidable to him, or what guards or what swords? What hinders a man, who has clearly separated (comprehended) these things, from living with a light heart and bearing easily the reins, quietly expecting everything which can happen, and enduring that which has already happened? Would you have me to …