194 definitions
Body (n.) is neither you nor even yours; you are your volition, and only there can you be free.
Death (n.) in itself is simply natural; its badness is something people lay over it.
An Emotion (n.) is never a pure reaction: it is the outcome of a judgement about what is good to pursue or bad to suffer, and so can be controlled on reflection.
An Encounter (n.) with another person happens only when you learn their judgements and show them yours; one look at someone is like meeting a statue.
An Error (n.) in logic is never small: told he had missed one step in a syllogism, Epictetus said it wasn't as if he had burned down the Capitol — and was told the missing step was the Capitol.
Fatalism (n.) is only half of Stoicism: what turns resignation into welcome is providence, the conviction that whatever befalls you is the share that is right for you.
Fate (n.) binds the gods as well: the author of the world wrote its decrees, and then obeys them himself.
Freedom (n.) has nothing to do with politics, for Epictetus: it is not being hemmed in by any outside circumstance or by any emotional reaction.
Happiness (n.) demands watching your own mind at every waking moment and holding it, not anything outside, responsible for all the good and bad you meet.
Happiness (n.) is unimpededness: doing and undergoing only what you want, with no sense that things could be better for you than you find them.
An Insult (n.) works only because you hand your mind to whoever happens along — something you would be furious to see done with your body.