The Enchiridion, written by Epictetus is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice. There is a bunch of different types on subjects, such as, that happiness requires freedom. Yet, to be free means to be happy. Epictetus argues about a problem, how does one become free? Being free means to focus on the stuff that needs to depend on us. We should not give any acknowledgement to what does not depend on us. Epictetus offers his knowledge between things that we depend on, such as, our judgements, what we dislike and what we want; he also shares on things that do not depend on, which is our body, the power we gain and etcetera. While we are applying these things, we actually have no power in knowing if we will be happy in the end with our judgments, and the disappointments along the way could or will make us unhappy. In …show more content…
Epictetus talks about invincibility, that we can be invincible because nothing that is around us can harm us, only the actions we take, so if we take the best ones, this makes us invincible. Therefore, everything is in our best judgment, if we fail and make a wrong decision, we will be unhappy. Yet, we can become happy and invincible, if we make the right choices. There are some important things we must apply and abide by in our life, before we achieve invincibility. We must not anything or anyone interfere with your life decisions, because this is when the mistakes may happen and you will fall into destruction. Later in the passage, you can see that a man is dignified by his humility. This makes most sense, humility has a lot to deal with by being happy. Humility is being concerned with what is right, and by doing the right things in your life is how one can achieve happiness. With happiness comes laughter, but having a desire to laugh so much, at anything, without having any kind of self-discipline, could lead you into a distasteful actions or