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Quotation from Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion by Epictetus
“Of things some are in our power, and others are not.”
Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion, Encheiridion, ch. I, trans. George Long (1877)
The opening sentence of the handbook, which then lists opinion, impulse, desire and aversion as in our power and body, property, reputation and office as not.
Citation: "Of things some are in our power, and others are not." — Epictetus, Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion, Encheiridion, ch. I, trans. George Long (1877). (id epictetus-discourses-and-encheiridion-q1)
Portrait: Epictetus from L. Annaei Senecae philosophi Opera, 1605, title page detail, Theodoor Galle, Public domain.
