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„Gleich wie die Sonne, damit sie aufgehe, nicht auf Gebet oder Beschwörung harrt, sondern einfach scheinet und von den Menschen mit Freuden empfangen wird; also sollst auch du nicht auf Beifall, Anklopfen und Lob warten, damit du Wohltaten erzeigest. Tue sie freiwillig, so wirst du auch wie die Sonne geliebt.“

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Fragment 22 möglicherweise aus dem Handbuch der Moral
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Quelle: Johann Georg Schulthess: Bibliothek der Griechischen Philosophen, Band 2, S.553 https://books.google.at/books?id=_7k-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA553. Verlag Orell, Geßner und Füsslin, Zürich, 1778.

„Wie die Sonne nicht auf Lob und Bitten wartet, um aufzugehen, sondern eben leuchtet und von der ganzen Welt begrüßt wird, so darfst auch du weder Schmeichelei noch Beifall brauchen, um Gutes zu tun. Aus dir selbst heraus mußt du es tun: Dann wirst du wie die Sonne geliebt werden.“

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„Nicht die Dinge selbst beunruhigen die Menschen, sondern die Meinungen und die Urteile über die Dinge.“

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Handbuch der Moral (5)
Handbuch der Moral (ἐγχειρίδιον encheirídion) Übersetzung Rainer Nickel, uni-saarland.de http://www.philo.uni-saarland.de/people/analytic/strobach/alteseite/veranst/therapy/epiktet.html

„Wenn dir jemand mitteilt, dir sage jemand Böses nach, dann rechtfertige dich nicht, sondern antworte: Er kannte wohl meine anderen Fehler nicht; denn sonst würde er nicht nur diese hier erwähnen.“

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Handbuch der Moral (33)
Handbuch der Moral (ἐγχειρίδιον encheirídion) Übersetzung Rainer Nickel, uni-saarland.de http://www.philo.uni-saarland.de/people/analytic/strobach/alteseite/veranst/therapy/epiktet.html

„Nur wer sein Ziel kennt, findet seinen Weg.“

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„Kein Mensch, der in Furcht oder Sorge oder Chaos lebt, ist frei, aber wer sich von Sorgen, Furcht und Chaos befreit, wird dadurch auch aus der Sklaverei befreit.“

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Epiktet Zitate und Sprüche

„Erinnere dich, dass du ein Schauspieler in einem Drama bist; deine Rolle verdankst du dem Schauspieldirektor. Spiele sie, ob sie nun kurz oder lang ist. Wenn er verlangt, dass du einen Bettler darstellst, so spiele auch diesen angemessen; ein Gleiches gilt für einen Krüppel, einen Herrscher oder einen Durchschnittsmenschen. Denn das allein ist deine Aufgabe: Die dir zugeteilte Rolle gut zu spielen; sie auszuwählen, ist Sache eines anderen.“

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Handbuch der Moral (17)
Handbuch der Moral (ἐγχειρίδιον encheirídion) Übersetzung Rainer Nickel, uni-saarland.de http://www.philo.uni-saarland.de/people/analytic/strobach/alteseite/veranst/therapy/epiktet.html

„Ertrage und entsage.“
Sustine et abstine!

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Handbuch der Moral (ἐγχειρίδιον encheirídion) Übersetzung Rainer Nickel, uni-saarland.de http://www.philo.uni-saarland.de/people/analytic/strobach/alteseite/veranst/therapy/epiktet.html

„Bleibe deinen Vorsätzen wie gewöhnlichen Gesetzen treu - in der Überzeugung, dass du eine gottlose Tat begehst, wenn du sie missachtest.“

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Handbuch der Moral (50)
Handbuch der Moral (ἐγχειρίδιον encheirídion) Übersetzung Rainer Nickel, uni-saarland.de http://www.philo.uni-saarland.de/people/analytic/strobach/alteseite/veranst/therapy/epiktet.html

Über Gott

„Der erste und notwendigste Bereich der Philosophie umfaßt die Anwendung ihrer Lehren.“

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Handbuch der Moral (52)
Handbuch der Moral (ἐγχειρίδιον encheirídion) Übersetzung Rainer Nickel, uni-saarland.de http://www.philo.uni-saarland.de/people/analytic/strobach/alteseite/veranst/therapy/epiktet.html

„Wer dem unausweichlichen Schicksal sich in rechter Weise fügt, der gilt als weise uns und kennt der Götter Walten.“

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Handbuch der Moral (53) Kernsätze
Handbuch der Moral (ἐγχειρίδιον encheirídion) Übersetzung Rainer Nickel, uni-saarland.de http://www.philo.uni-saarland.de/people/analytic/strobach/alteseite/veranst/therapy/epiktet.html

Über Gott , Über Schicksal

„Wie du beim Gehen darauf achtest, daß du nicht in einen Nagel trittst oder dir den Fuß verstauchst, so nimm dich auch davor in acht, daß das leitende Prinzip in dir keinen Schaden nimmt. Und wenn wir diese Regel bei jeder Handlung einhalten, dann werden wir mit größerer Sicherheit an die Sache herangehen.“

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Handbuch der Moral (38)
Handbuch der Moral (ἐγχειρίδιον encheirídion) Übersetzung Rainer Nickel, uni-saarland.de http://www.philo.uni-saarland.de/people/analytic/strobach/alteseite/veranst/therapy/epiktet.html

Über Ehe

„Für einen Menschen ist es unmöglich, das zu erlernen, was er bereits zu wissen meint.“

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Handbuch der Moral (42)
Handbuch der Moral (ἐγχειρίδιον encheirídion) Übersetzung Rainer Nickel, uni-saarland.de http://www.philo.uni-saarland.de/people/analytic/strobach/alteseite/veranst/therapy/epiktet.html

Über Menschen , Wissen

Epiktet: Zitate auf Englisch

“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?”

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Book I, ch. 25.
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“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!"”

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100
Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“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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104
Golden Sayings of Epictetus

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

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Fragment xiii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“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."”

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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)

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

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Fragment vii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“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?”

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Book I, ch. 20.
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“Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.”

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

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Fragment xii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“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.”

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98
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“Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.”

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Book I, ch. 18.
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“Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.”

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Fragment xvii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

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

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

“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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Book I, ch. 15.
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“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.”

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95
Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“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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Fragment vi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

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

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Book I, ch. 21.
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“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.”

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20
The Enchiridion (c. 135)

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

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Fragment xvi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

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

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Fragment xxi.
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?”

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[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)

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

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

“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.”

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Fragment xxii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“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."”

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

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Book I, ch. 17.
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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.”

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97
Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“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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Fragment xxxii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

“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.”

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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
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