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Epictetus

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Ep·ic·te·tus  (pk-tts) a.d. 55?-135?
Phrygian-born philosopher who popularized the Stoic ethical doctrine of limiting one's desires, believing that one should act in life as at a banquet by taking a polite portion of all that is offered.
Epictetus [ˌɛpɪkˈtiːtəs]
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(Biographies / Epictetus (?50-?120) M, Greek, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) ?50-?120 ad, Greek Stoic philosopher, who stressed self-renunciation and the brotherhood of man
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Noun1.Epictetus - Greek philosopher who was a Stoic (circa 50-130)


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You don't have to sit on her lap and listen to talk that would make the book of a musical comedy sound like the maxims of Epictetus.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece, was the permission to take an active interest in public affairs; and Aesop, like the philosophers Phaedo, Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown.
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How truly does Epictetus observe: 'We know not what awaiteth us round the corner, and the hand that counteth its chickens ere they be hatched oft-times doth but step on the banana-skin.
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