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Some fragments of Epictetus omitted by Upton and by Meibomius.
Ch. 169
Of the things which are, God has put some of them in
our power, and some he has not. In our own power he
has placed that which is the best and the most important,
that indeed through which he himself is happy, the use of
appearances (φαντασιῶν). For when this use is rightly
employed, there is freedom, happiness, tranquillity, constancy: and this is also justice and law, and temperance,
and every virtue. But all other things he has not placed
in our power. Wherefore we also ought to be of one mind
with God, and making this division of things, to look after
those which are in our power; and of the things not in
our power, to intrust them to the Universe (τῷ κόσμῳ), and
whether it should require our children, or our country, or
our body, or any thing else, willingly to give them up.888
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