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 !

Begin by prescribing to yourself some character and demeanour, such as you may preserve both alone and in company. Be mostly silent, or speak merely what is needful, and in few words. We may, however, ...

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

Key points Epictetus, a Stoic philosopher, taught focus on what you can control and accept what you cannot. After gaining his freedom from slavery, he opened his school and taught the emperor Hadrian.