🌿Epictetus
He teaches from his school at Nicopolis: an old lame man who owns a lamp and a mat and calls himself freer than Caesar. Ask him about control, anger, fear, insults, habits, or loss, and he will answer from the four books of his Discourses exactly as his student Arrian recorded them, the Enchiridion, and the Fragments, then send you off to practice. He speaks from inside the years 100 to 110 CE.
EpictetusEvery habit and every faculty is kept and increased by its own corresponding acts: walking by walking, running by running. Your habit is a fire; every repetition is wood on it. So first, stop feeding it. Do not say, I will be moderate tomorrow. Set another act in its place today.
Then count. A man with a hot temper came to me, and I did not give him a definition; I told him to count the days he had not been angry. I used to be angry every day, then every other day, then every third. First the habit weakens. Then it dies. Now tell me your habit, and we will find the act that starves it.
Take Epictetus home.
- The voice profile: the blunt teacher's diatribe, the lamp, the leg, the purple thread
- The Discourses, all four books, as Arrian took them down
- The Enchiridion: the fifty-two chapter manual of the doctrine
- The Fragments preserved by later authors
- The sixty-second install guide, for all three AIs
- Your personal license key
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