Epictetus, The Handbook, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Translator), 27

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As a mark ¹ is not set up for the sake of missing the aim, so neither does the nature of evil exist in the world.

The Handbook. Epictetus. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Translator). New York. 1890.

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The Enchiridion (English) (Epictetus. The Works of Epictetus, His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, translator. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1890.)

Editions (1)

Ἐγχειρίδιον Perseus (Epictetus. Epicteti dissertationes ab Arriano digestae, editio maior. Schenkl, Heinrich. editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1916.) — 27 focus

[1] ὥσπερ σκοπὸς πρὸς τὸ ἀποτυχεῖν οὐ τίθεται, οὕτως οὐδὲ κακοῦ φύσις ἐν κόσμῳ γίνεται.

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The Encheiridion, or Manual Perseus (Epictetus. The Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheridion and Fragments. Long, George, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1887.) — 27 focus

As a mark is not set up for the purpose of missing the aim, so neither does the nature of evil exist in the world.¹

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The Handbook

1. Happiness, the effect of virtue, is the mark which God hath set up for us to aim at. Our missing it is no work of His; nor so properly anything real, as a mere negative and failure of our own.—C.

Epictetus The Handbook 27

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Translator)

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