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Attribuée à Epictetus

«It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.»

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Elle ne figure pas dans l'œuvre de Epictetus

A modern paraphrase, not a literal quotation, of Handbook 5. The original speaks not of "reactions" but of the judgements (dogmata) we form about things.

Source: Epicteto. Disertaciones (por Arriano) y Manual. Texto griego en Wikisource en griego; trad. inglesa de George Long, The Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and Fragments (Londres: George Bell, 1877), en Wikisource en inglés.

Ce qu'il a vraiment dit

Paroles vérifiées de Epictetus

  • «Of things some are in our power, and others are not.»

    Manual 1, 1. Griego: Wikisource; inglés: George Long (1877); español: traducción propia.

  • «Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.»

    Manual 5. Griego: Wikisource; inglés: George Long (1877); español: traducción propia.

  • «Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.»

    Manual 8. Griego: Wikisource; inglés: George Long (1877); español: traducción propia.

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