22
If you would lead a life without sorrow, regard things which will happen, as if they had already happened.
23
Be exempt from grief; not like irrational creatures, from insensibility, nor from inconsiderateness, like fools; but like a man of virtue, making reason the remedy for grief.
24
They whose minds are the least grieved by calamities, and who best meet them in action, are the greatest both in public and in private life.
25
They who are well instructed, like those who are exercised in the palaestra, if they happen to fall quickly and dexterously rise again from misfortunes.
26
We ought to call in reason, like a good physician, to our assistance in misfortune.
27
Too much intoxication from good fortune, as from drinking, makes a fool more senseless.
28
Envy is the adversary of the fortunate.
29
He who remembers what man is, can be discontented at nothing which happens.
30
A pilot and a fair wind are necessary to a happy voyage; reason and art, to a happy life.
31
Of good fortune, as of ripe fruit, we must make the most while it lasts.
32
He is unreasonable who quarrels with events which happen from natural necessity.
Doubtful fragments.
C
The following Fragments are omitted by Mr. Upton, but as they stand under the name of Arrian, and seem to be in the spirit of Epictetus, they are added here. - [C.]
