Wednesday, October 21, 2020

What’s not under our control are the body and any of its parts, our possessions, parents, siblings, children, or country

From The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman. 

We control our reasoned choice and all acts that depend on that moral will. What’s not under our control are the body and any of its parts, our possessions, parents, siblings, children, or country—anything with which we might associate.

—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.22.10

 

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