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The Art of Living by Epictetus

Books Are Great

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Epictetus' Meditations

There's not a whole lot of autobiography in here. I'm sure you can find writings on Epictetus' daily life that's not what this is about. This is him lecturing, essentially. It's all second person to help his students understand the way that they should live their lives. There's no $10 words in here. They don't mince words and that chapter is one of the longer ones in the book. From now on, practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant, you were just in appearance and by no means what you appear to be.

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