Epictetus
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She studies it daily, reading the texts of thinkers such as Seneca, Epictetus and other men better known as marble busts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Democracy thrives when citizens remember what the Stoic philosopher Epictetus said more than two thousand years ago: “We have two ears and one mouth, so we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
From Slate • Jan. 2, 2026
Throughout the novel, Rhys references Kant, De Beauvoir, Sartre, Virginia Woolf and Epictetus, among others, using knowledge as a balm and escape hatch.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025
Epictetus, another influential Stoic philosopher, expounds on the idea of authenticity and resistance to conformity in his "Discourses."
From Salon • Jan. 30, 2024
Epictetus and Seneca say, Quamcunque veram esse viam ad libertatem;—any way is allowable that leads to liberty.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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