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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

Epictetus
Thinking, Sorrow, Wish
Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.53, Courier Corporation

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

Epictetus
Sorrow, Wish, Doe
Epictetus (1926). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

Epictetus
Anxiety, Sorrow, States

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