The Analects, After a Fashion (Epictetus 1)

Aphorism 1: This aphorism is very trhuthful in that it says that you should be ready to accept that soemthings cannot change and are not up to you. It reminds that we are not superpowerful or perfect and somethings will always be out of our control.

2: This, like number one, tells people that it is best to simply not get what you want, rather than have horrible thigns happen to you. Horrible thing shappen alone, and we must live without thinking about then, but we can control dissapoinment in not getting what we want by just not wanting it, because we can control that unhappiness.

3: This one reminds us that thigns are impermanent and we must keep them in context, because we must later remember to deal with loss in context.

4: Reminds us that things are not neta and clean because we want them to be, put we can keep ourselves from falling into annoyance or anger just by telling ourselves that it is out of our hands but that we can still accomplish what we set out to do because we control it.

5: This is very SF in ideas, because it says that death is not sad, and to always remember that bad things are out of everyones hands, so we just need to keep going with our lives and not blame anyone.