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Epictetus on How to Be Free

The Daily Stoic

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The Fruit of thes Stoic Dos

Is it possible to escape from people? How could that happen? But is it possible to change them by being in their company? Who gives us that option? What else is there then? And what resource can we find for dealing with them? The sort of resource whereby they will do what seems good to them, but we shall just as surely be in harmony with nature. Yet you are unhappy and discontented. If you are alone, you call it isolation. But if you are in company, you call people schemers and robbers. You even find fault with your parents and children and brothers and neighbors. When you are alone,. you should call it peace and freedom and liken yourself to

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