In his Enchiridion (Handbook), Epictetus writes that there are things within our control, such as our desires and fears, and things beyond our control, like the inevitability of aging or illness, ...

In the mid-’90s, not long after I graduated from college, a friend insisted I read “The Manual,” by the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus. For an ungainly introvert like myself, the book’s ...

In fact, Meditations bears some resemblance to Epictetus’s collection of moral precepts, called Enchiridion (Manual).

Simplicius, Commentary on the Enchiridion, 46. On Epictetus adopting a child. Lucian, Remarks to an Illiterate Book-Lover, 13. The lamp of clay bought for 3,000 drachmæ.

Simplicius, Commentary on the Enchiridion, 46. On Epictetus adopting a child. Lucian, Remarks to an Illiterate Book-Lover, 13. The lamp of clay bought for 3,000 drachmæ.

In “Public Plato: Ancient Wisdom in the Digital Age,” Tamar Gendler, dean of Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy, merged core texts from Western ...

The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses and Fragments by Epictetus, translated by Robin Waterfield. Chicago, 460 pp., £44, October 2022, 978 0 226 76933 2 ...

Epictetus, the Greek slave turned Stoic philosopher (50AD-135AD), wrote in his “handbook” The Enchiridion: “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

The classic dictum underlying cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is that 'men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things'. This is attributed to the Stoic Philosopher ...