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This is the ninth part of a video commentary series, working through Epictetus' classic work of Stoic philosophy, the Enchiridion (or Handbook), one half hour at a time. In this series, we examine the text chapter by chapter, and line by line, providing analysis, examples, discussion, and applications. In this video, we look at chapters 21-23 of the text.
Epictetus writes:
"21. Keep before your eyes day by day death and exile, and
everything that seems terrible, but most of all death; and then you will
never have any abject thought, nor will you yearn for anything beyond
measure.
22. If you yearn for philosophy, prepare at once to be met with
ridicule, to have many people jeer at you, and say, "Here he is again,
turned philosopher all of a sudden," and "Where do you suppose he got
that high brow? " But do you not put on a high brow, and do you so hold
fast to the things which to you seem best, as a man who has been
assigned by God to this post; and remember that if you abide by the same
principles, those who formerly used to laugh at you will later come to
admire you, but if you are worsted by them, you will get the laugh on
yourself twice.
23. If it should ever happen to you that you turn to externals with a
view to pleasing someone, rest assured that you have lost your plan of
life. lie content, therefore, in everything to he a philosopher, and if you
wish also to be taken for one, show to yourself that you are one, and you
will be able to accomplish it"
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