Discourses and Selected Writings

Contains The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion

''I must die. But must I die bawling?''

Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exac...