Epictetus: Discourses, Fragments, Handbook African American & Black It’s one of those rare

It’s one of those rare books that leave you reflecting on both its clever narrative and its underlying themes of truth

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Epictetus: Discourses, Fragments, Handbook African American & Black It’s one of those rare'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus' Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed slave, whose discourses have a vivid informality,