The Handbook of Epictetus
Handbook 32.1
Translated by Clint Miller
English
When you consult a diviner, remember that you do not know how things will turn out – that is what you have come to learn from him. But what kind of thing it will be, you knew before you came, if you are a philosopher. For if it is something not up to us, it is necessarily neither good nor evil.
Greek
ὅταν μαντικῇ προσίῃς, μέμνησο, ὅτι, τί μὲν ἀποβήσεται, οὐκ οἶδας, ἀλλὰ ἥκεις ὡς παρὰ τοῦ μάντεως αὐτὸ πευσόμενος, ὁποῖον δέ τι ἐστίν, ἐλήλυθας εἰδώς, εἴπερ εἶ φιλόσοφος. εἰ γάρ ἐστί τι τῶν οὐκ ἐφ’ ἡμῖν, πᾶσα ἀνάγκη μήτε ἀγαθὸν αὐτὸ εἶναι μήτε κακόν.
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