A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

Grammar can tell you what words to write to a friend—but not whether you should write at all. What can judge the choice?

In the ancient world of Epictetus, a philosopher once enslaved and later a teacher, life brings chains, exile, and the threat of death. Yet in these sharp, searching lessons, the body may be fettered while the will remains beyond an emperor’s reach. Epictetus asks readers to test not how much philosophy they can recite, but whether they can meet fortune without surrendering their character. What, then, is truly yours—and what can no power take from you?

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