Epictetus is in some ways my favorite philosopher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hold Steady Do Some Casbah Rocking, Evoke John Berryman] Reference

To paraphrase Epictetus: I have dressed myself as whom I wish to appear as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference

"Epictetus," he replied, "if ever you find me setting as much as one foot within the Court, think what you will of me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference

Asked what Common Sense was, Epictetus replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference

Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius were stoics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference

Epictetus, a slave, won as complete inward freedom as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference

Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius and, of course, in the Gospels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems of Conduct] Reference

"Says he" (63): Plato, quoted by Epictetus, Arr.i. 28, 2 and 22.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

'Of the free will there is no thief or robber:' out of Epictetus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

Teacher of M Aurelius who learnt from him to appreciate Epictetus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guide to Stoicism] Reference

Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus and Belisarius, and Hildebrand and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanly Speaking] Reference

Wolfe's instrument for Croker's conversion is the stoic Epictetus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Wolfe's Rooftop Yawp] Reference

And I have suggested we all read Epictetus and take a deep breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Kornbluth: The "D" Conference: Daddy, What Did You Do During Peak Oil?] Reference

Epictetus, one of the ablest of the Stoic philosophers, was a slave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

Seneca revels in it; Epictetus employs it for edification and Maucus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guide to Stoicism] Reference

Epictetus, is social; wrongdoing is antisocial; affection is natural.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

The subject bulks largely in the works of Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Cicero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendship] Reference

Epictetus puts it, "What we ought not to do we should not even think of doing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems of Conduct] Reference

The consolation the poet offers to his friend breathes the spirit of Epictetus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850] Reference

As Epictetus said, "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter H. Gleick: Global Weirding: Naming Climate Change Disasters After the Deniers] Reference

Here's what Epictetus a very cool, former slave, has to say about difficulty and setbacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giles Slade: Barack (Despite Setbacks)] Reference

Every matter, says Epictetus, has two handles, and you can choose which handle you will take.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men in the Making] Reference

And what is the good of knowing about Epictetus and Zeno and the rest if you've got rheumatism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference

For the "according to nature" theory, see Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, passim; Rousseau, Discourse on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems of Conduct] Reference

Under this head may be grouped the names of Seneca, Pliny the Elder, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

The writings of Epictetus, Aurelius, and Seneca approach in moral sublimity and searching self-analysis the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

This passage of the Apology, in a condensed form, is adopted by Epictetus as one of the watchwords of Stoicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guide to Stoicism] Reference

"The Widow O'Callaghan is the greatest philosopher since Epictetus, and as bright and glowing as a well-cut gem.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference

'As often as a father kisseth his child, he should say secretly with himself' (said Epictetus,) 'tomorrow perchance shall he die.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

Epictetus with his doctrines of how to live and how to die; the "grave Greeke tragedian" who drew "the princesse, sweet Antigone".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference