Chapter 14 of 192
Short Works, Chapter 14: The Enchiridion — XIV
by Epictetus · 59s · read by Earbook narrator
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If you would have your children and your wife and your friends to live forever, you are silly; for you would have the things which are not in your power to be in your power, and the things which belong to others to be yours. So if you would have your slave to be free from faults, you are a fool; for you would have badness not to be badness, but something else. But if you wish not to fail in your desires, you are able to do that. Practise then this which you are able to do. He is the master of every man who has the power over the things, which another person wishes or does not wish, the power to confer them on him or to take them away. Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.
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- 1The Enchiridion — I
- 2The Enchiridion — II
- 3The Enchiridion — III
- 4The Enchiridion — IV
- 5The Enchiridion — V
- 6The Enchiridion — VI
- 7The Enchiridion — VII
- 8The Enchiridion — VIII
- 9The Enchiridion — IX
- 10The Enchiridion — X
- 11The Enchiridion — XI
- 12The Enchiridion — XII
- 13The Enchiridion — XIII
- 14The Enchiridion — XIV
- 15The Enchiridion — XV
- 16The Enchiridion — XVI
- 17The Enchiridion — XVII
- 18The Enchiridion — XVIII
- 19The Enchiridion — XIX
- 20The Enchiridion — XX
- 21The Enchiridion — XXI
- 22The Enchiridion — XXII
- 23The Enchiridion — XXIII
- 24The Enchiridion — XXIV
- 25The Enchiridion — XXV
- 26The Enchiridion — XXVI
- 27The Enchiridion — XXVII
- 28The Enchiridion — XXVIII
- 29The Enchiridion — XXIX
- 30The Enchiridion — XXX
- 31The Enchiridion — XXXI
- 32The Enchiridion — XXXII
- 33The Enchiridion — XXXIII
- 34The Enchiridion — XXXIV
- 35The Enchiridion — XXXV
- 36The Enchiridion — XXXVI
- 37The Enchiridion — XXXVII
- 38The Enchiridion — XXXVIII
- 39The Enchiridion — XXXIX
- 40The Enchiridion — XL
- 41The Enchiridion — XLI
- 42The Enchiridion — XLII
- 43The Enchiridion — XLIII
- 44The Enchiridion — XLIV
- 45The Enchiridion — XLV
- 46The Enchiridion — XLVI
- 47The Enchiridion — XLVII
- 48The Enchiridion — XLVIII
- 49The Enchiridion — XLIX
- 50The Enchiridion — L
- 51The Enchiridion — LI
- 52The Enchiridion — LII
- 53The Enchiridion — LIII
- 54Fragments — I
- 55Fragments — II
- 56Fragments — III
- 57Fragments — IV
- 58Fragments — V
- 59Fragments — VI
- 60Fragments — VII
- 61Fragments — VIII
- 62Fragments — IX
- 63Fragments — X
- 64Fragments — XI
- 65Fragments — XII
- 66Fragments — XIII
- 67Fragments — XIV
- 68Fragments — XV
- 69Fragments — XVI
- 70Fragments — XVII
- 71Fragments — XVIII
- 72Fragments — XIX
- 73Fragments — XX
- 74Fragments — XXI
- 75Fragments — XXII
- 76Fragments — XXIII
- 77Fragments — XXIV
- 78Fragments — XXV
- 79Fragments — XXVI
- 80Fragments — XXVII
- 81Fragments — XXVIII
- 82Fragments — XXIX
- 83Fragments — XXX
- 84Fragments — XXXI
- 85Fragments — XXXII
- 86Fragments — XXXIII
- 87Fragments — XXXIV
- 88Fragments — XXXV
- 89Fragments — XXXVI
- 90Fragments — XXXVII
- 91Fragments — XXXVIII
- 92Fragments — XXXIX
- 93Fragments — XL
- 94Fragments — XLI
- 95Fragments — XLII
- 96Fragments — XLIII
- 97Fragments — XLIV
- 98Fragments — XLV
- 99Fragments — XLVI
- 100Fragments — XLVII
- 101Fragments — XLVIII
- 102Fragments — XLIX
- 103Fragments — L
- 104Fragments — LI
- 105Fragments — LII
- 106Fragments — LIII
- 107Fragments — LIV
- 108Fragments — LV
- 109Fragments — LVI
- 110Fragments — LVII
- 111Fragments — LVIII
- 112Fragments — LIX
- 113Fragments — LX
- 114Fragments — LXI
- 115Fragments — LXII
- 116Fragments — LXIII
- 117Fragments — LXIV
- 118Fragments — LXV
- 119Fragments — LXVI
- 120Fragments — LXVII
- 121Fragments — LXVIII
- 122Fragments — LXIX
- 123Fragments — LXX
- 124Fragments — LXXI
- 125Fragments — LXXII
- 126Fragments — LXXIII
- 127Fragments — LXXIV
- 128Fragments — LXXV
- 129Fragments — LXXVI
- 130Fragments — LXXVII
- 131Fragments — LXXVIII
- 132Fragments — LXXIX
- 133Fragments — LXXX
- 134Fragments — LXXXI
- 135Fragments — LXXXII
- 136Fragments — LXXXIII
- 137Fragments — LXXXIV
- 138Fragments — LXXXV
- 139Fragments — LXXXVI
- 140Fragments — LXXXVII
- 141Fragments — LXXXVIII
- 142Fragments — LXXXIX
- 143Fragments — XC
- 144Fragments — XCI
- 145Fragments — XCII
- 146Fragments — XCIII
- 147Fragments — XCIV
- 148Fragments — XCV
- 149Fragments — XCVI
- 150Fragments — XCVII
- 151Fragments — XCVIII
- 152Fragments — XCIX
- 153Fragments — C
- 154Fragments — CI
- 155Fragments — CII
- 156Fragments — CIII
- 157Fragments — CIV
- 158Fragments — CV
- 159Fragments — CVI
- 160Fragments — CVII
- 161Fragments — CVIII
- 162Fragments — CIX
- 163Fragments — CX
- 164Fragments — CXI
- 165Fragments — CXII
- 166Fragments — CXIII
- 167Fragments — CXIV
- 168Fragments — CXV
- 169Fragments — CXVI
- 170Fragments — CXVII
- 171Fragments — CXVIII
- 172Fragments — CXIX
- 173Fragments — CXX
- 174Fragments — CXXI
- 175Fragments — CXXII
- 176Fragments — CXXIII
- 177Fragments — CXXIV
- 178Fragments — CXXV
- 179Fragments — CXXVI
- 180Fragments — CXXVII
- 181Fragments — CXXVIII
- 182Fragments — CXXIX
- 183Fragments — CXXX
- 184Fragments — CXXXI
- 185Fragments — CXXXII
- 186Fragments — CXXXIII
- 187Fragments — CXXXIV
- 188Fragments — CXXXV
- 189Fragments — CXXXVI
- 190Fragments — CLXXIX
- 191Fragments — CLXXX
- 192Fragments — CLXXXI