A Translation from the Greek, based on that of Elizabeth Carter. By THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON. Boston : Little, Brown, & Co. HAPPY the youth who has this Stoic repast fresh and untasted before him !

Excerpted with permission from the publishers How to Live - A Handbook of Stoic Philosophy: Discourses and The Enchiridion by Epictetus, published by Fingerprint! Publishing ***** Some extracts Begin ...

Illustration of Epictetus, with lamp and crutch, in Edward Ivie’s 1715 Latin translation of the Enchiridion. Wikimedia Commons/William Sonmans/Public domain Stoic philosophy has exerted an important ...

One of the biggest names when it comes to the Stoics of ancient history is Epictetus. He was a Greek Stoic philosopher born in 55 CE and “flourished in the early second century” with his Stoicism, per ...

Epictetus, in Discourses, Book 1, Chapter 24, in a section titled -- How one should contend against difficulties -- compares hardship to a trainer matching an athlete with a tough opponent, suggesting ...