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Grendel · 3493 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Stoic: 9 Principles To Help You Keep Calm In Chaos
Stoicism was born in Greece, three and a half centuries before Epictetus. The authors this article focuses on, although they are today considered the most important (mainly because they're the only ones whose complete works have survived and thus the most influential), are part of the late phase of stoicism, so I don't know if it's fair to call them its leaders. Marcus Aurelius considered himself a failed philosopher; Seneca wasn't strictly a stoic philosopher, for example he frequently quoted Epicurus in his letters. I look forward to more threads about this wonderful school of thought, but like jleopold, I felt that this particular article didn't do it justice.