Plain
Epictetus — The Slave

When it comes to things that are neither good nor bad, the soul feels neutral. Think of it like this: a money changer can't refuse Caesar's coin. Neither can someone selling vegetables. If you show them the coin, they have to accept it and give you what you're buying — whether they want to or not. The soul works the same way. When something truly good appears, it draws you toward it immediately. Evil pushes you away. But your soul will never reject something that's clearly good, just like people won't reject Caesar's coin. This is the basic principle behind every action by humans and gods.

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Human Nature Doing The Right Thing
Epictetus — The Slave Original

and with respect to that which is neither good nor bad it feels indifferent. For as the money-changer (banker) is not allowed to reject Cæsar's coin, nor the seller of herbs, but if you show the coin, whether he chooses or not, he must give up what is sold for the coin; so it is also in the matter of the soul. When the good appears, it immediately attracts to itself; the evil repels from itself. But the soul will never reject the manifest appearance of the good, any more than persons will reject Cæsar's coin. On this principle depends every movement both of man and God.

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Epictetus — The Slave

A wise and good person works with their own mind. A doctor works with the body. A trainer works with athletes. A farmer works with land. The job of a wise and good person is to handle impressions the right way. Here's what's natural for every soul: to agree with what's true, reject what's false, and stay undecided about uncertain things. It's also natural to want good things and avoid bad things.

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Knowing Yourself What Matters Most
Epictetus — The Slave Original

The material for the wise and good man is his own ruling faculty: and the body is the material for the physician and the aliptes (the man who oils persons); the land is the matter for the husbandman. The business of the wise and good man is to use appearances conformably to nature: and as it is the nature of every soul to assent to the truth, to dissent from the false, and to remain in suspense as to that which is uncertain; so it is its nature to be moved towards the desire for the good, and to aversion from the evil;

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