We shall not look upon them as fit subjects for aversion or desire.

Sin and cruelty, and falsehood we may hate, because we can avoid them if we will; but we must look upon sickness, and poverty, and death as things which are _not_ fit subjects for our avoidance, because they lie wholly beyond our control.
This, then,--endurance of the inevitable, avoidance of the evil--is the keynote of the Epictetean philosophy.

It has been summed up in the three words, [Greek: Anechou kai apechou], "_sustine et abstine_," "Bear and forbear,"-- bear whatever God assigns to you, abstain from that which He forbids.
The earlier part of the _Manual_ is devoted to practical advice which may enable men to endure nobly.

For instance, "If there be anything," says Epictetus, "which you highly value or tenderly love, estimate at the same time its true nature.

Is it some possession?
remember that it may be destroyed.