Epictetus,Sharon Lebell

The Art of Living

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Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 ce in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Once freed, he established an influential school of Stoic philosophy, stressing that human beings cannot control life, only their responses to it. By putting into practice the ninety-three witty, wise, and razor-sharp instructions that make up The Art of Living, readers learn to meet the challenges of everyday life successfully and to face life's inevitable losses and disappointments with grace.
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81 printed pages
Publication year
2013
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Quotes

  • Sylashas quoted3 years ago
    As concerns the art of living, the material is your own life. No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time.

    Give your best and always be kind.
  • Sylashas quoted3 years ago
    Most people do not understand the correct use of arguments by inference and the proper use of logical forms, so they conduct themselves in a random, overly reactive, or muddled fashion and are easily misled.
  • Sylashas quoted3 years ago
    The untrained response to robbers and thugs and to those who otherwise err is outrage and retribution. Wrongdoers need to be rightly understood to form the correct response to their behavior.

    The appropriate response to bad deeds is pity for the perpetrators, since they have adopted unsound beliefs and are deprived of the most valuable human capacity: the ability to differentiate between what’s truly good and bad for them. Their original moral intuitions have been distorted, so they have no chance at inner serenity.

    Whenever someone does something foolish, pity him rather than yield to hatred and anger as so many do.

    We are only enraged at the foolish because we make idols of those things which such people take from us.

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