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
This commitment to keeping it real and mustering resistance to conformity is deeply ingrained in Stoic teachings, as evident in works such as "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius and "Discourses" by Epictetus.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024
Epictetus quotes lines which he attributes to Pythagoras— Let sleep not come upon thy languid eyes Ere thou has scanned the actions of the day— Where have I sinned?
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
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