Chapter 3
If you are fond of a jug, say it is a jug of which you are fond... if you kiss your child or your wife, say that it is a human being whom you kiss, and thus you will not be disturbed if either of them dies.Read in Books4Free →
Loved Ones as Mortal
From The Enchiridion by Epictetus
The famous and shocking exhortation to remember that what we love is mortal, so we are not disturbed when it is taken away.
Chapter 11
'Never say of anything, I have lost it; but, I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is returned.' Possessions and persons are loans from nature/the gods.
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