Enchiridion XXVII

Epictetus, tr. T. W. Higginson (1865)

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As a mark1 is not set up for the sake of missing the aim, so neither does the nature of evil exist in the world.

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  1. Happiness, the effect of virtue, is the mark which God has set up for us to aim at. Our missing it is no work of His; nor so properly anything real, as a mere negative and failure of our own. ↩