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Ask yourself, How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?

Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

Epictetus
Life, Children, Deeds

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

Epictetus
Life, Children, Hands
"The Enchiridion". Book translated by Elizabeth Carter, 2006.

Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

Epictetus
Children, Leader, Parent

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

Epictetus
Death, Children, Wife
Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus
Children, Play, Society

No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.

Epictetus
Brother, Children, Father
Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.173

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

Epictetus
Children, Ignorance, Parenting
Epictetus (1925). “Discourses”

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Epictetus
Children, Lost Love, Wife

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