Epictetus
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#Epictetus
Epictetus · c. 50–135 CE
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Who this is
“A crippled slave who owned a rush mat and a clay lamp became the Roman Empire's most influential teacher of freedom — and, eighteen centuries later, the accidental founder of modern therapy.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Divide everything in life into what is up to you and what is not; stake your happiness only on the first, and nothing can ever enslave you again.”
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