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Epictetus: There IS a handbook for life

Epictetus: There IS a handbook for life

The 1800-year-old handbook for a “tranquil flow of life”

Steven Gambardella
Dec 29, 2018
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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, “The Young School Mistress” (detail) c. 1736. (Public Domain. Source: Wikipedia)

The 1800-year-old handbook for a “tranquil flow of life”

When we go through troubled times and we are faced with dilemmas, we are often consoled with the cliché “well, there’s no handbook for life.”

Except that there is. It was written in the seco…

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