Epictetus

GPTKB entity

Properties (36)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Philosopher
gptkbp:associatedWith Stoic school
gptkbp:birthYear c. 55
gptkbp:bornIn gptkb:Phrygia
gptkbp:campusFacilities gptkb:Musonius_Rufus
gptkbp:culturalImpact Influence on personal development
Influence on leadership training
Influence on mindfulness practices
Influence on resilience training
Popular in modern self-help literature
gptkbp:deathYear c. 135
gptkbp:famousQuote The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Epictetus
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Marcus_Aurelius
gptkb:Modern_Stoicism
Seneca
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Stoicism
gptkbp:legacy Influence on cognitive behavioral therapy
Influence on existentialism
Influence_on_Christian_thought
gptkbp:philosophy Ethics
Virtue
Dialectic
Personal freedom
Practical ethics
Control over one's mind
gptkbp:taught gptkb:Rome
Philosophy
Nicomedia
Philosophical school
gptkbp:wrote Enchiridion
Discourses