Author: Epictetus

Cited by

• Malcolm Bradbury (1)
  • IN: eating people is wrong (1959) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Do I say man is not made for an active life? Far from it. But there is a great difference between other men's occupations and ours. A glance at theirs will make it clear to you. All day long they do nothing but calculate, contrive, consult how to wring profit out of foodstuffs, farms and the like. But I entreat you to understand what the adminstration and nature of the world is, and what place a being endowed with reason holds in it; to consider what you are as a person, and in what your good and evil consists.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Louise Doughty (1)
  • IN: Whatever You Love (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You should remind yourself that when you love is mortal, that when you love is not your own. It is granted to you for the present while, and not irrevocably, nor for ever, but like a fig or a bunch of grapes in the appointed season; and if you long for it in the winter, you are a fool.
    FROM: The Discourse of Epictetus, (108), Book, Greece
• Laurence Sterne (1)
  • IN: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) Novel, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Ταρασσει τοὐϚ Ἀνϑρώπους οὐ τὰ Πράγματα, αλλα τὰ περι τῶν Πραγμάτων, Δογματα. (***Translation: "Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.)
    FROM: Enchiridion, (125), Book, Greece