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The Enchiridion of Epictetus is a handbook of Stoic ethics, compiled in 135AD by Epictetus's student, Arrian.

The values espoused in the Enchiridion are the essence of Stoicism, written as a list of 52 short maxims.

These maxims outline the virtues by which Stoic philosophers should live by, and can be summed up as thus:

"What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things."

In the Enchiridion, Epictetus advises that one takes full responsibility of one's actions and disregards anything one does not have full control over.

In this way, the philosopher can never be subject to a will that is not their own.

Source: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html

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