Frases célebres de Epicteto
“Porque el dolor y la muerte no son terribles, sino el miedo al dolor o a la muerte.”
Fuente: "Discursos", Libro II, capítulo I. http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.2.two.html
Frases de fe de Epicteto
Otra versión: «No pretendas que las cosas sean como las deseas; deséalas como son».
Frases de hombres de Epicteto
Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.
Fuente: Máximas.
Fuente: Memorial literario, ó , Biblioteca periódica de ciencias y artes, Volúmenes 3-4. Editado en la Imprenta de los Señores García, y Cía., 1802. p. 262.
Epicteto Frases y Citas
Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 104.
“El error del anciano es que pretende enjuiciar el hoy con el criterio del ayer.”
Fuente: Eusebio, Sebastián Arribas. Enciclopedia básica de la vida. Cultivalibros. 2010. ISBN 978-84-99233-42-0. p. 154.
Fuente: Diccionario del pensamiento. Editor Elío Fabio Echeverri. Editorial Ferrini, 1942. p. 188.
Otra versión: «No es lo que te pasa, es como te lo tomas. El dolor y el sufrimiento vienen de lo que nos contamos a nosotros mismos sobre las consecuencias, sobre el futuro, sobre lo que va a pasar como resultado de lo que ha pasado».
Enchiridion
“Cuando hayas de sentenciar procura olvidar a los litigantes y acordarte sólo de la causa.”
Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 177.
Epicteto: Frases en inglés
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Contexto: It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else were happiness also impossible. We should act as we do in seafaring: “What can I do?”—Choose the master, the crew, the day, the opportunity. Then comes a sudden storm. What matters it to me? my part has been fully done. The matter is in the hands of another—the Master of the ship. The ship is foundering. What then have I to do? I do the only thing that remains to me—to be drowned without fear, without a cry, without upbraiding God, but knowing that what has been born must likewise perish. For I am not Eternity, but a human being—a part of the whole, as an hour is part of the day. I must come like the hour, and like the hour must pass! (186).
“He has disposed that there should be”
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Contexto: True instruction is this: —to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole. (26).
“If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles”
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Contexto: If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor had my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change. (109).
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Contexto: The true Cynic must know that he is sent as a Messenger from God to men, to show unto them that as touching good and evil they are in error; looking for those where they are not to be found, nor ever bethinking themselves where they are. And like Diogenes when brought before Philip after the battle of Chæronea, the Cynic must remember that he is a Spy. For a Spy he really is—to bring back word what things are on Man's side, and what against him. And when he has diligently observed all, he must come back with a true report, not terrified into announcing them to be foes that are no foes, nor otherwise perturbed or confounded by the things of sense. (113).
“Ask me, if you choose, if a Cynic shall engage in the administration of a state.”
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Contexto: Ask me, if you choose, if a Cynic shall engage in the administration of a state.... Ask you if a man shall come forward in the Athenian assembly and talk about revenues and supplies, when his business is to converse with all men, Athenians, Corinthians, and Romans alike, not about supplies, not about revenue, not yet peace and war, but about Happiness and Misery, Prosperity and Adversity, Slavery and Freedom?... what greater government shall he hold than he holds already? (117).
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Contexto: I apply to you to come and hear that you are in evil case; that what deserves your attention most is the last thing to gain it; that you know not good from evil, and are in short a hapless wretch; a fine way to apply! though unless the words of the Philosopher affect you thus, speaker and speech are alike dead. (120).
“Others may fence themselves with walls and houses”
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Contexto: Others may fence themselves with walls and houses, when they do such deeds as these, and wrap themselves in darkness—aye, they have many a device to hide themselves. Another may shut his door and station one before his chamber to say, if any comes, He has gone forth! he is not at leisure! But the true Cynic will have none of these things; instead of them, he must wrap himself in Modesty: else he will but bring himself to shame, naked and under the open sky. That is his house; that is his door; that is the slave that guards his chamber; that is his darkness! (111).
“Appearances to the mind are of four kinds.”
Book I, ch. 27.
Discourses
Contexto: Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Contexto: A Philosopher's school is a Surgery: pain, not pleasure, you should have felt therein. For on entering none of you is whole. One has a shoulder out of joint, another an abscess: a third suffers from an issue, a forth pains in the head. And am I then to sit down and treat you to pretty sentiments and empty fluourishes, so that you may applaud me and depart, with neither shoulder, nor head, nor issue, nor abscess a whit the better for your visit? Is it then for this that young men are to quit their homes, and leave parents, friends, kinsmen and substance to mouth out Bravo to your empty phrases! (121).
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The Enchiridion (c. 135)
“Appear to know only this,—never to fail nor fall.”
That Courage is not inconsistent with Caution, book ii. Chap. i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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The Enchiridion (c. 135)
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Golden Sayings of Epictetus
163
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
“The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.”
That we ought not to be angry with Mankind, Chap. xxviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Fragment xxiv.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
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Golden Sayings of Epictetus
“The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.”
Of Courage, Chap. xxix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
How the Semblances of Things are to be combated, Chap. xviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”
Book II, ch. 1 http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.2.two.html
Discourses
Variante: For death or pain is not formidable, but the fear of pain or death.
“There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.”
Of Inconsistency, Chap. xxi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)