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Updated: May 16, 2025
Renan said at the dedication of The Hague monument to Spinoza, "Since the days of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius we have not seen a life so profoundly filled with the sentiment of the divine."
It need hardly be said that, after midnight, Peyrade muffled this bell. "What is up in such a hurry, Philosopher?" Philosopher was the nickname bestowed on Contenson by Peyrade, and well merited by the Epictetus among police agents. The name of Contenson, alas! hid one of the most ancient names of feudal Normandy. "Well, there is something like ten thousand francs to be netted." "What is it?
Whether any of these great thoughts would have suggested themselves spontaneously to Epictetus whether there was an inborn wisdom and nobleness in the mind of this slave which would have enabled him to elaborate such views from his own consciousness, we cannot tell; they do not, however, express his sentiments only, but belong in fact to the moral teaching of the great Stoic school, in the doctrines of which he had received instruction.
Next year , we find her studying Mme de Staël, Epictetus, Milton, Racine, and Spanish ballads, 'with great delight. Anon she is engrossed with the elder Italian poets, from Berni down to Pulci and Politian; then with Locke and the ontologists; then with the opera omnia of Sir William Temple.
To what school should we attach ourselves? A copy of the Enchiridion of Epictetus fell into our hands, and after studying it faithfully, we rejected Stoicism. The Cynics were proposed; we rejected them there was nothing admirable in Diogenes as a patron. We next passed upon Socratus.
Passages from Seneca, from Epictetus, from Marcus Aurelius, sound even now like fragments of the inspired writings. The Unknown God, whom they ignorantly worshipped as the Soul or Reason of the World, is in spite of Milton's strictures the beginning and the end of their philosophy. Let us listen for a moment to their language.
The Greeks who practised it were from first to last too anxious to be invulnerable; this was the main attraction of the philosophic life from the time of Antisthenes, and it remained the main attraction to the end. Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius often seem to be half Christian.
The maddest dingo dog, if he could appreciate my state of being, would learn points in insanity. It is two o'clock. I must go to sleep. I take from my shelves Epictetus, who might be expected to throw cold water on the most burning fever of the mind. I have not read far before I come across this consolatory apophthegm: "The contest is unequal between a charming girl and a beginner in philosophy."
"Anytus and Melitus may put me to death: to injure me is beyond their power." And again: "If such be the will of God, so let it be." Nay, young man, for heaven's sake; but once thou hast heard these words, go home and say to thyself: "It is not Epictetus that has told me these things: how indeed should he? No, it is some gracious God through him.
Socrates, he contented himself with oral instruction, and the bulk of what has come down to us in his name consists in the Discourses reproduced for us by his pupil Arrian. It was the ambition of Arrian "to be to Epictetus what Xenophon had been to Socrates," that is, to hand down to posterity a noble and faithful picture of the manner in which his master had lived and taught.
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