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This is the shortest book I've ever read that changed my life.

It's "The Enchiridion" By Epictetus. Epictetus is one of the most important Stoics in history. He was a philosopher and slave. However, although he was a slave, he was more free than most rulers.

Here is the craziest part. Marcus Aurelius, the guy I cite daily, was emperor of Rome while Epictetus was a slave in Rome.

Both practiced the same philophy and wrote about the same things. Both had the same human challenges. Both knew that power and freedom comes from within and that only things that you can control can be moral or immoral.

A philophy practiced by emperors and slaves alike. Study stoicism.

Gm ☕

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calle · 92w
The full enchiridion: https://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html It's a handbook so it's worth getting the cheapest copy you can find (literally just a couple bucks).
Melvin Carvalho · 92w
My favourite, but more cryptic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monas_Hieroglyphica
nikotsla · 92w
Stoicism +1, The Daily Stoic is a good intro to this philosophy.
xiangcai · 92w
amazing! 🤙
Lostdog · 92w
Stoicism is nuts in all the good ways
Anarko · 92w
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday is my daily read and I highly recommend it. https://m.primal.net/JYiQ.jpg
realjode · 92w
Have you listened to Eckhart Tolle reading and commenting on one of Marcus Aurelius’s books ? Well worth a listen 🎧
NostraDamus · 92w
His name means “acquired” in greek.
tank · 92w
Thanks for the recommendation. Also enjoyed “Tao of Seneca” which is a collection of letters from Seneca.
The Bitcoin Street Journal · 92w
This is why I Nostr.💜
Robertrobert · 92w
GM☕️☕️✝️🌅Great advice.
danton · 92w
A must read💪🏻
paul keating · 92w
Thanks for sharing. Just downloaded
Baz. · 92w
Thanks for the tip. Enjoying reading it now
PHILIP · 91w
Will add to the list. Thanks. GM
vinney...axkl · 91w
Massimo Pigliucci is a modern philosophers who also loves Epictetus and has some good contemporary books on him / adapting him. I agree the originals are best but some people might prefer this approach: https://massimopigliucci.org/stoicism/
David Caseria · 91w
The ancients knew more than we do today. Most moderns view freedom as “the ability to do whatever I want whenever I want.” Yet through his dialogues in The Republic, Plato describes the Tyrant, the person with the power to do whatever he wants, as a slave, unable to escape his base desires. As ...
muraschal.io · 91w
Thanks!🙏🏻 https://www.audible.de/pd/B09PHP9RW6 https://m.primal.net/JZRl.png
🌊 · 91w
There are neither emperors nor slaves, just retards.
🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit · 91w
Nobody wants to be an emperor or a slave tho
Geronimo · 91w
Amazing read
Mclovin · 91w
Here is the text for "The Enchiridion" by Epictetus: The Enchiridion (meaning "the handbook" in Greek) is a short manual of Stoic philosophical advice written by Epictetus, a Greek slave and later philosopher who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The work is a collection of aphorisms and essay...