In every thing which pleases the soul, or supplies a
want, or is loved, remember to add this to the (description, notion); what is the nature of each thing, beginning
from the smallest? If you love an earthen vessel, say it is
an earthen vessel which you love; for when it has been
broken, you will not be disturbed. If you are kissing
your child or wife, say that it is a human being whom
you are kissing, for when the wife or child dies, you will
not be disturbed.
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
The Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheridion and Fragments. Epictetus. George Long. translator. London. George Bell and Sons. 1890.
This text was converted to electronic form by optical character recognition and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.