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Description : #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity. ? ?Some things are up to us and some are not.? ? Epictetus was born into slavery around the year 50 CE, and, upon being granted his freedom, he set himself up as a philosophy teacher. After being expelled from Rome, he spent the rest of his life living and teaching in Greece. He is now considered the most important exponent of Stoicism, and his surviving work comprises a series of impassioned discourses, delivered live and recorded by his student Arrian, and the Handbook, Arrian?s own take on the heart of Epictetus?s teaching. ? In Discourses, Epictetus argues that happiness depends on knowing what is in our power to affect and what is not. Our internal states and our responses to events are up to us, but the events themselves are assigned to us by the benevolent deity, and we should treat them?along with our bodies, possessions, and families?as matters of indifference, simply making the

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