Epictetus: Discourses and Selected Writings

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Epictetus: Discourses and Selected WritingsPenguin Classics Discourses Fragments Enchiridion. Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing our fate to live in

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