Stoicism rests on a handful of core principles: that virtue is the only true good, that some things are in our control and most are not, that we should live in…
Epictetus never wrote anything down. His quotes survive only because a student recorded his lectures in the Discourses and the Enchiridion. The result is the…
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher who lived from around 50 to 135 AD. Born into slavery, he was freed as a young man and went on to found his own school. He…
