Translated by THOMAS W. HIGGINSON With an Introduction by ALBERT SALOMON Professor of Sociology New School for Social Research THE LIBERAL ARTS PRESS NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1948 THE LIBERAL ARTS PRESS, INC. First Edition , October, 1948 Reprinted December, 1950 ; August, 1954 Second Edition , November, 1955 Published at 153 West 72nd Street, New York 23, N. Y. Printed in the United States of America...

The text of the second edition is a reprint of the first edition except for a few minor corrections in style, punctuation, and spelling, which have been revised to conform to current American usage. The editorial staff of the publishers has added a few explanatory notes which are set in brackets and marked “Ed.” O.P....

The little book by Epictetus called Enchiridion or “manual” has played a disproportionately large role in the rise of modern attitudes and modern philosophy. As soon as it had been translated into the vernacular languages, it became a bestseller among independent intellectuals, among anti-Christian thinkers, and among philosophers of a subjective cast. Montaigne had a copy of the Enchiridion among his books. Pascal violently rejected the megalomaniac pride of the Stoic philosopher. Frederick the

There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power. Within our power are opinion, aim, desire, aversion, and, in one word, whatever affairs are our own. Beyond our power are body, property, reputation, office, and, in one word, whatever are not properly our own affairs. Now the things within our power are by nature free, unrestricted, unhindered; but those beyond our power are weak, dependent, restricted, alien. Remember, then, that if you attribute free

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