CLXV.
He who bears in mind what man is will never be troubled at any thing which happens.
CLXVI.
For making a good voyage a pilot (master) and wind are necessary: and for happiness reason and art.
CLXVII.
We should enjoy good fortune while we have it, like the fruits of autumn.
CLXVIII.
He is unreasonable who is grieved (troubled) at the things which happen from the necessity of nature.
Some Fragments of Epictetus omitted by Upton and by Meibomius.
CLXIX.
Of the things which are, God has put some of them in our power, and some he has not. In our own power he has placed that which is the best and the most important, that indeed through which he himself is happy, the use of appearances (φαντασιῶν). For when this use is rightly employed, there is freedom, happiness, tranquillity, constancy: and this is also justice and law, and temperance, and every virtue. But all other things he has not placed in our power. Wherefore we also ought to be of one mind with God, and making this division of things, to look after those which are in our power; and of the things not in our power, to intrust them to the Universe (τῷ κόσμῳ), and whether it should require our children, or our country, or our body, or any thing else, willingly to give them up.[1]
- ↑ This is a valuable fragment, and I think, a genuine fragment of Epictetus.
There is plainly a defect in the text, which Schweighaeuser has judiciously suppplied.
