“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
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Epictetus’ teaching as recorded in the classroom by his student Arrian.
Epictetus. Born enslaved in Phrygia around 50 CE and freed as a young man, he taught in Nicopolis after philosophers were expelled from Rome. He wrote nothing himself; the Discourses and the shorter Enchiridion were set down by his student Arrian.
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