RomeStoics and Plotinus

Epictetus: Discourses

A freed slave teaches that some things are up to us and some are not, and that peace comes from knowing which.

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11 of the 1990 set
Author
Epictetus (c. AD 50–c. 135)
Work
The Discourses c. AD 108 (taken down by his student Arrian)

Ideas: Peace of mind Freedom and its limits Virtue and character

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