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Moral preparation

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Often appears with: will, choice, and freedom · the fear of death · temperance and self-mastery · self-mastery · indifference and judgments · external things

Usually: argument (1) · exhortation (1)

A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion primary

Epictetus (translated by George Long) · c. 100-135 CE
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He continues on indifference: only the judgment is non-indifferent, so people must not neglect preparation or become abject over external events, and should value what they can choose.

not that which is acquired from the need (of such practice), but yield in that matter to those who have had practice, and be yourself content with firmness of mind. Go and salute a certain person. How? Not meanly. But I have been shut out, for I have not learned to make my way through the window; and when I have found the door shut, I must either come back or enter through the window. But still speak to him. In what…