No. 39 of 200 · Great Authors
135 AD
Major worksDiscourses, Enchiridion (Handbook)
The Greek Stoic philosopher, born into slavery and later freed, whose teachings were recorded by a student in the Discourses and the Enchiridion. His insistence that we control nothing but our own judgments and will, and that freedom lies in accepting what we cannot change, made Stoicism a practical guide to living that still speaks powerfully today.
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Episodes and essays that touch on Epictetus.
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