Epictetus · The Handbook
Chapter 43
English
Everything has two handles: one it can be carried by, one it cannot. If your brother wrongs you, do not grab the matter by this handle, that he is wronging you – for that is the handle it cannot be carried by. Grab it instead by the other: that he is your brother, that he was raised with you. Then you will be holding it the way it can be carried.
Greek
πᾶν πρᾶγμα δύο ἔχει λαβάς, τὴν μὲν φορητήν, τὴν δὲ ἀφόρητον. ὁ ἀδελφὸς ἐὰν ἀδικῇ, ἐντεῦθεν αὐτὸ μὴ λάμβανε, ὅτι ἀδικεῖ (αὕτη γὰρ ἡ λαβή ἐστιν αὐτοῦ οὐ φορητή), ἀλλὰ ἐκεῖθεν μᾶλλον, ὅτι ἀδελφός, ὅτι σύντροφος, καὶ λήψῃ αὐτὸ καθ’ ὃ φορητόν.
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