A Greek–English reading edition
The Handbook of Epictetus
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Test the impression.
So practice, from this moment, saying to every harsh impression: “You are an impression, and not at all the thing you appear to be.” Then examine it and test it by the standards you have – first and above all by this one: does it concern what is up to us, or what is not up to us?
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