"We've to do thes best we can with the things that are in our power, but take the rest as it present to us."
EPICTETUS, DISERTATIONS, 1.1
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This is a book in which the well known philosophy writer Massimo Pigliucci drives a story telling with Epicterus to teach us how to emdorse stoicism in this s. XXI.
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