Epictetus

Discourses (Books 1 and 2)

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The ne plus ultra of Stoicism, Discourses outline clear-cut principles of right conduct and true thinking, offering secular thinkers a mode of reasoning that dismisses the strictures of absolutism and emotionalism in exchange for a more peaceful and productive life. The Discourses report wide-ranging discussions between Epictetus and his students.
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235 printed pages
Publication year
2012
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Quotes

  • david gohhas quoted4 years ago
    Do you see where your eyes are looking? You are looking at the earth, at what is lowest and basest,42 at these miserable laws of the dead, and you regard not the laws of the gods.
  • david gohhas quoted4 years ago
    Are they not the words of all kings that are? For what else are tragedies but a portrayal in such metrical form of the sufferings of men who have set their admiration on outward things? If delusion after all were the only means for a man to learn this lesson30—the lesson that not one of the things beyond the compass of our will concerns us, then I for my part would choose a delusion such as this, if it should procure me a life of undisturbed tranquillity
  • b4221949999has quoted4 years ago
    If delusion after all were the only means for a man to learn this lesson30—the lesson that not one of the things beyond the compass of our will concerns us, then I for my part would choose a delusion such as this, if it should procure me a life of undisturbed tranquillity

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