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Full Idea
When the time comes, then I will die - as becomes a person who gives back what is not his own.
Gist of Idea
I will die as becomes a person returning what he does not own
Source
Epictetus (The Discourses [c.56], 1.01.32)
Book Ref
Epictetus: 'The Discourses, The Handbook, Fragments', ed/tr. Gill,C [Everyman 1995], p.7
A Reaction
There is a tension between his demand that he have full control of his choices, and this humility that says his actual life is not his own. The things which can't be controlled, though, are 'indifferents' so life and death are indifferent.
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