Epictetus On Anxiety [Solicitude] | GreatestAudioBooks

The famed Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus [Greek: ἐπίκτητος, Epíktētos] lived from circa 50 A.D. to c. 135 A.D. Born into slavery in the region of Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Türkiye), he suffered from a physical disability and was a slave to Epaphroditus in Rome. Epaphroditus, a wealthy freedman who worked for the Roman Emperor Nero, granted Epictetus permission to study Stoic philosophy under Musonius Rufus. Epictetus obtained his freedom at some point after the death of Nero in A.D. 68. He lived in Rome until his banishment around A.D. 93. Epictetus then moved to Nicopolis in Greece, where he taught philosophy and spent the remainder of his life. His teachings were written and published by his student Arrian in Discourses and the Enchiridion. 🌟🎧📚 https://GreatestAudioBooks.co 🌐 💌 S u b s c r i b e : https://www.youtube.com/GreatestAudioBooks/subscribe @GreatestAudioBooks 💙 T w i t t e r : https://www.twitter.com/GAudioBooks ________________________________________________ 📖 READ along by clicking (CC) for Closed Caption Transcript! 🎧 LISTEN to the entire audiobook for free! ⏱️ Chapter listing & timestamps ⤵️ On Anxiety [Solicitude] by Epictetus "ON ANXIETY (SOLICITUDE).—When I see a man anxious, I say, What does this man want? If he did not want something which is not in his power, how could he be anxious? For this reason a lute player when he is singing by himself has no anxiety, but when he enters the theatre, he is anxious, even if he has a good voice and plays well on the lute; for he not only wishes to sing well, but also to obtain applause: but this is not in his power. Accordingly, where he has skill, there he has confidence. Bring any single person who knows nothing of music, and the musician does not care for him. But in the matter where a man knows nothing and has not been practised, there he is anxious. What matter is this? He knows not what a crowd is or what the praise of a crowd is. However, he has learned to strike the low