The Philosophy of Epictetus

by Epictetus

  XXIII

  LET NO man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.

  XXIV

  IF THOU rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.

  NOTE.—Schweighæuser’s great edition collects 181 fragments attributed to Epictetus, of which but a few are certainly genuine. Some (as xxi., xxiv., above) bear the stamp of Pythagorean origin; others, though changed in form, may well be based upon Epictetean sayings. Most have been preserved in the Anthology of John of Stobi (Stobæus), a Byzantine collector, of whom scarcely anything is known but that he probably wrote towards the end of the fifth century, and made his vast body of extracts from more than five hundred authors for his son’s use. The best examination of the authenticity of the Fragments is Quoestiones Epicteteae, by R. Asmus, 1888. The above selection includes some of doubtful origin but intrinsic interest.—Crossley.

  (APPENDIX B)

  THE HYMN OF CLEANTHES

  CHIEFEST GLORY of deathless Gods, Almighty for ever,

  Sovereign of Nature that rulest by law, what Name shall we give Thee?—

  Blessed be Thou! for on Thee should call all things that are mortal.

  For that we are Thine offspring; nay, all that in myriad motion

  Lives for its day on the earth bears one impress—Thy likeness — upon it.

  Wherefore my song is of Thee, and I hymn Thy power for ever.

  Lo, the vast orb of the Worlds, round the Earth evermore as it rolleth,

  Feels Thee its Ruler and Guide, and owns Thy lordship rejoicing.

  Aye, for Thy conquering hands have a servant of living fire—

  Sharp is the bolt!—where it falls, Nature shrinks at the shock and doth shudder.

  Thus Thou directest the Word universal that pulses through all things,

  Mingling its life with Lights that are great and Lights that are lesser,

  E’en as beseemeth its birth, High King through ages unending.

  Nought is done that is done without Thee in the earth or the waters

  Or in the heights of heaven, save the deed of the fool and the sinner.

  Thou canst make rough things smooth; at Thy Voice, lo, jarring disorder

  Moveth to music, and Love is born where hatred abounded.

  Thus hast Thou fitted alike things good and things evil together,

  That over all might reign one Reason, supreme and eternal;

  Though thereunto the hearts of the wicked be hardened and heedless—

  Woe unto them!—for while ever their hands are grasping at good things,

  Blind are their eyes, yea, stopped are their ears to God’s Law universal,

  Calling through wise obedience to live the life that is noble.

  This they mark not, but heedless of right, turn each to his own way,

  Here, a heart fired with ambition, in strife and straining unhallowed;

  There, thrusting honour aside, fast set upon getting and gaining;

  Others again given over to lusts and dissolute softness,

  Working never God’s Law, but that which warreth upon it.

  Nay, but, O Giver of all things good, whose home is the dark cloud,

  Thou that wieldest Heaven’s bolt, save men from their ignorance grievous;

  Scatter its night from their souls, and grant them to come to that Wisdom

  Wherewithal, sistered with Justice, Thou rulest and governest all things;

  That we, honoured by Thee, may requite Thee with worship and honour,

  Evermore praising thy works, as is meet for men that shall perish;

  Seeing that none, be he mortal or God, hath privilege nobler

  Than without stint, without stay, to extol Thy Law universal.

  POETRY

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  AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY: An Anthology, 1773-1927, Edited by Joan R. Sherman. (0-486-29604-0)

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  THE WASTE LAND, PRUFROCK AND OTHER POEMS, T. S. Eliot. (0-486-40061-1)

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  RENASCENCE AND OTHER POEMS, Edna St. Vincent Millay. (0-486-26873-X)

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  TO MY HUSBAND AND OTHER POEMS, Anne Bradstreet. (0-486-41408-6)

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  GREAT SHORT POEMS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Edited by Dorothy Belle Pollack. (0-486-47876-9)

  THE FLOWERS OF EVIL & PARIS SPLEEN: Selected Poems, Charles Baudelaire. Translated by Wallace Fowlie. (0-486-47545-X)

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  EARLY POEMS, Edna St. Vincent Millay. (0-486-43672-1)

  JABBERWOCKY AND OTHER POEMS, Lewis Carroll. (0-486-41582-1)

  THE METAMORPHOSES: Selected Stories in Verse, Ovid. (0-486-42758-7)

  IDYLLS OF THE KING, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Edited by W. J. Rolfe. (0-486-43795-7)

  A BOY'S WILL AND NORTH OF BOSTON, Robert Frost. (0-486-26866-7)

  100 FAVORITE ENGLISH AND IRISH POEMS, Edited by Clarence C. Strowbridge. (0-486-44429-5)

 
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  THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, Robert Louis Stevenson. (0-486-26688-5)

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  UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, Harriet Beecher Stowe. (0-486-44028-1)

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  THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND: and Other Science-Fiction Stories, H. G. Wells. Edited by Martin Gardner. (0-486-48289-8)

  THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, H. G. Wells. (0-486-29506-0)

  ETHAN FROME, Edith Wharton. (0-486-26690-7)

  THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Oscar Wilde. (0-486-27807-7)

  MONDAY OR TUESDAY: Eight Stories, Virginia Woolf. (0-486-29453-6)

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  POETICS, Aristotle. (0-486-29577-X)

  MEDITATIONS, Marcus Aurelius. (0-486-29823-X)

  THE WAY OF PERFECTION, St. Teresa of Avila. Edited and Translated by E. Allison Peers. (0-486-48451-3)

  THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, Ambrose Bierce. (0-486-27542-6)

  GREAT SPEECHES OF THE 20TH CENTURY, Edited by Bob Blaisdell. (0-486-47467-4)

  THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO AND OTHER REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS:Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others, Edited by Bob Blaisdell. (0-486-42465-0)

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  ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: By Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin. (0-486-45006-6)

  NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Frederick Douglass. (0-486-28499-9)

  THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK, W. E. B. Du Bois. (0-486-28041-1)

  NATURE AND OTHER ESSAYS, Ralph Waldo Emerson. (0-486-46947-6)

  SELF-RELIANCE AND OTHER ESSAYS, Ralph Waldo Emerson. (0-486-27790-9)

  THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO, Olaudah Equiano. (0-486-40661-X)

  WIT AND WISDOM FROM POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK, Benjamin Franklin. (0-486-40891-4)

  THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Benjamin Franklin. (0-486-29073-5)

  THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND OTHER GREAT DOCUMENTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY: 1775-1865, Edited by John Grafton. (0-486-41124-9)

  INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL, Harriet Jacobs. (0-486-41931-2)

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  THE WIT AND WISDOM OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A Book of Quotations, Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Bob Blaisdell. (0-486-44097-4)

  THE SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT AND A LETTER CONCERNING TOLERATION, John Locke. (0-486-42464-2)

  THE PRINCE, Niccolò Machiavelli. (0-486-27274-5)

  MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE: Selected Essays, Michel de Montaigne. Translated by Charles Cotton. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt. (0-486-48603-6)

  UTOPIA, Sir Thomas More. (0-486-29583-4)

  BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, Friedrich Nietzsche. (0-486-29868-X)

  TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE, Solomon Northup. (0-486-78962-4)

  COMMON SENSE, Thomas Paine. (0-486-29602-4)

  BOOK OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN QUOTATIONS, Edited by Joslyn Pine. (0-486-47589-1)

  THE TRIAL AND DEATH OF SOCRATES: Four Dialogues, Plato. (0-486-27066-1)

  THE REPUBLIC, Plato. (0-486-41121-4)

  SIX GREAT DIALOGUES: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic, Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. (0-486-45465-7)

  WOMEN'S WIT AND WISDOM: A Book of Quotations, Edited by Susan L. Rattiner. (0-486-41123-0)

  GREAT SPEECHES, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (0-486-40894-9)

  THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, St. Augustine. (0-486-42466-9)

  A MODEST PROPOSAL AND OTHER SATIRICAL WORKS, Jonathan Swift. (0-486-28759-9)

  THE IMITATION OF CHRIST, Thomas à Kempis. Translated by Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton. (0-486-43185-1)

  CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND OTHER ESSAYS, Henry David Thoreau. (0-486-27563-9)

  WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS, Henry David Thoreau. (0-486-28495-6)

  NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH, Sojourner Truth. (0-486-29899-X)

  THE WIT AND WISDOM OF MARK TWAIN: A Book of Quotations, Mark Twain. (0-486-40664-4)

  UP FROM SLAVERY, Booker T. Washington. (0-486-28738-6)

  A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN, Mary Wollstonecraft. (0-486-29036-0)

  PLAYS

  THE ORESTEIA TRILOGY: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies, Aeschylus. (0-486-29242-8)

  EVERYMAN, Anonymous. (0-486-28726-2)

  THE BIRDS, Aristophanes. (0-
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  LYSISTRATA, Aristophanes. (0-486-28225-2)

  THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Anton Chekhov. (0-486-26682-6)

  THE SEA GULL, Anton Chekhov. (0-486-40656-3)

  MEDEA, Euripides. (0-486-27548-5)

  FAUST, PART ONE, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (0-486-28046-2)

  THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, Nikolai Gogol. (0-486-28500-6)

  SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, Oliver Goldsmith. (0-486-26867-5)

  GHOSTS, Henrik Ibsen. (0-486-29852-3)

  A DOLL'S HOUSE, Henrik Ibsen. (0-486-27062-9)

  HEDDA GABLER, Henrik Ibsen. (0-486-26469-6)

  DR. FAUSTUS, Christopher Marlowe. (0-486-28208-2)

  TARTUFFE, Molière. (0-486-41117-6)

  BEYOND THE HORIZON, Eugene O'Neill. (0-486-29085-9)

  THE EMPEROR JONES, Eugene O'Neill. (0-486-29268-1)

  CYRANO DE BERGERAC, Edmond Rostand. (0-486-41119-2)

  MEASURE FOR MEASURE: Unabridged, William Shakespeare. (0-486-40889-2)

  FOUR GREAT TRAGEDIES: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare. (0-486-44083-4)

  THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, William Shakespeare. (0-486-42461-8)

  HENRY V, William Shakespeare. (0-486-42887-7)

  MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, William Shakespeare. (0-486-28272-4)

  FIVE GREAT COMEDIES: Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night,A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It and The Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare. (0-486-44086-9)

  OTHELLO, William Shakespeare. (0-486-29097-2)

  AS YOU LIKE IT, William Shakespeare. (0-486-40432-3)

  ROMEO AND JULIET, William Shakespeare. (0-486-27557-4)

  A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, William Shakespeare. (0-486-27067-X)

  THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, William Shakespeare. (0-486-28492-1)

  HAMLET, William Shakespeare. (0-486-27278-8)

  RICHARD III, William Shakespeare. (0-486-28747-5)