About things that are within our power and those that are not. ' Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed slave, whose discourses have a vivid informality, animated by anecdotes and dialogue. Forceful, direct, and challenging, their central message is that the basis of happiness is up to us, and that Discourses, Fragments, Handbook - Epictetus od authora Epictetus a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.