Epictetus: Enchiridion, XIX
“You may be unconquerable, if you enter into no combat in which it is not in your own control to conquer.”
Reflection
Choose arenas where the deciding variable is yours — effort, honesty, preparation — and other people's moods stop being referees. Which contest are you in that you cannot win by definition?
Source record
- Author
- Epictetus
- Original source
- Enchiridion, XIX
- Original date
- c. 125 AD
- Edition used
- Trans. George Long, 1877 — public domain
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