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 ...

The United States’ current political climate has parallels to the last few centuries B.C. in ancient Rome, home of notable Stoics like the the philosopher Epictetus, a former slave, and the ...

Stoicism, a school of thought born in ancient ... Zeno of Citium and later popularized by Roman thinkers such as Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, the philosophy emphasizes rationality ...

wp:paragraph --> The ancient Stoics knew this ... and hold opinions the opposite of what we should. — Epictetus, Discourses, 2.9.13-14 ...

Stoics would say that there is no “good ... In the words of Greek philosopher Epictetus, “It’s not things that upset us, it’s our judgement about things.” There’s no problem so ...