Epictetus
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages · author page
an Epictetus
in the texts
Meditations
Stoic philosopher quoted for the maxim describing man as a little soul carrying a corpse.
You are a little soul carrying a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
How many a Chrysippus, how many a Socrates, how many an Epictetus has eternity already swallowed down!
"No one robs us of our free choice" — the saying of Epictetus.
The Rights of War and Peace
Stoic philosopher whose discourse on debt, recorded by Arrian, is invoked.
On this topic, Arrian in Epictetus argues rightly, that the borrowing of money is not the only requisite to make a debt, but there must be the additional circumstance of the loan remaining undischarged.