2:15 – “Everything is what you judge it to be.[1]” While the retort made to the Cynic philosopher Monimus is obvious enough, obvious too is the use of the saying, if one only take the gist of it, so far as it is true.
[1] Alternative translations: “opinion,” “assumption”; hupolepsis, hypolepsis, u(po/lhyis; Seddon writes “opinion covers our beliefs and judgments, how we regard things, and especially how we evaluate things, generally” (commentary on Epictetus’s Handbook 1:1).
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Stoic texts:
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Letters from a Stoic Master (Seneca)
The Discourses of Epictetus
The Enchiridion (Handbook) of Epictetus
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