Epictetus Greatest Maxims Explained: Stoic Quotes, Wisdom and Daily Lessons

Born a slave. Lame for most of his life. Exiled from Rome. He spent the rest of his life teaching people how to be free.

Epictetus never wrote a word. He taught in a schoolroom in Nicopolis, in Greece, and his student Arrian wrote down what he heard: the Discourses, and the short handbook known as the Enchiridion. Marcus Aurelius read him and quoted him. His starting point is still the most useful idea in Stoicism: some things are in your power and some are not, and most suffering comes from...