Saturday, June 27, 2015

Stoic Saturday: Epictetus on the Fruits of Stoic Practice and Exercise

Those whose bodies are in good condition are able to withstand heat and cold; and so, likewise, those whose souls are in the right condition can bear anger, and grief, and immoderate joy, and all other emotions.
Epictetus, and Gill, Christopher, ed., and Hard, Robin, trans. The Discourses of Epictetus. London: Everyman: 1995, 314

His body needed a crutch, his mind did not 

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