Stoicism and the Art of Resilience
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 21 February 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
How does someone who was born into slavery, whose master broke their leg and crippled them for life, somehow escape all that and become one of the fathers of Stoicism and an amazing thinker? Epictetus had every reason to be unable to transcend his own struggles, but instead he is one of the most important Stoic philosophers. He lived the philosophy and it saved him.
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