Epictetus wrote Enchoridian centuries ago. The paragraph where he mentions about what things we have in our control and we don’t have has been a principle for me. Luckily I read the book. Many things we do in our life with our best efforts. But if we decide the result or expect the outcome in …
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Epictetus : Stoic philosopher
Epictetus was a Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability. Like Socrates, he too had not written anything. Some of his students collected his sayings and converted it into an Enchiridion (a book containing essential information on a subject.)I remember Chetan telling me about this book while I was …
Notes from Reading: Enchiridion by Epictetus
Epictetus was one of the famous stoic philosopher. He was born as a slave in current day Turkey. He spent most part of his life in Rome and then later moved to Greece. Enchiridion is modern day notes, so this essentially are contents of Epictetus notebook. These are some of my Kindle notes: Men are disturbed not …
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