Skip to content
What Would Stoics Do

Epictetus · c. 50 – c. 135 CE

Fragments 178 — Epictetus

Translation by George Long (1877)

Epictetus, Fragments 178

About no common thing, he said, the contest (dispute) is, but about being mad or not.
— Epictetus, Fragments 178 · tr. George Long (1877)Read in context →

Cite this passage

Epictetus, Fragments 178, tr. George Long (1877)

https://whatwouldstoicsdo.com/passage/epictetus-fragments/178

Epictetus, Enchiridion and Fragments, tr. George Long (1877). Text: Standard Ebooks (CC0). Sources and licences

Read Fragments in context →

In plain English

AI-written notes

The stakes of philosophy are not trivial. The struggle is over whether you think and live sanely or are carried along by delusion, which is a very uncommon thing to dispute about.

Themes and situations

  • Judgements and impressions
  • Learning and progress
  • Virtue and character

Quote cards

The opening line of this passage as an image, with its citation — for sharing or keeping.

Epictetus, Fragments 178, tr. George Long (1877)