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20016648 No.20016648 [Reply] [Original]

Which of the three major Stoic writers do you prefer? Seneca, Epictetus, or Aurelius?

>> No.20016665

>>20016648
I never knew them

>> No.20016673

i like seneca, but he's probably inferior to the other two

>> No.20016707

>>20016648
Epictetus>Aurelius>Seneca

>> No.20017608

>>20016648
I like Seneca best, because I've never heard of Epictetus and I don't know whether Aurelius is pronounced AurEElius or AurAYlius, so if he ever came up in conversation I would be terrified of getting him wrong and incurring mockery.

>> No.20017671

>>20016648
>Seneca, one of the richest and powerful guy in the world
>just free yourself from earthly desires bro
>Marcus Redditus, an emperor
>everything is just made of atoms bro… therefore it doesn’t matter if my wife cheats on me
>Epictetus, a slave
>nigga oughta wisen up or kill themselves

yeah, I’m gonna go with my boy Epictetus

>> No.20017770

>>20016648
What even is the difference

>> No.20017871

>>20016648
ZENO.

>> No.20017926

not a pure stoic but cicero is pretty good too