Remember that it is not he who reviles you or strikes you, who insults you, but it is your opinion about these things as being insulting.
- Source
- Enchiridion, 20, trans. George Long
- Written
- early 2nd century AD
About this quotation
Epictetus, who was born a slave, continues that when someone irritates you, “it is your own opinion which has irritated you”, and he advises not to be carried away by the impression. The idea is the same as in the better-known fifth chapter of the Enchiridion.