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Re:Why Is Silicon Valley So Obsessed with the Virtue of Suff... by FabHK on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @03:26PM (#19495200)
And one of the most famous texts espousing Stoicism, the Enchiridion [1], compiles the teachings of Epictetus, a crippled former slave who "lived a life of great simplicity, with few possessions" [2]. Not exactly the rich and powerful.

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/epictetus/the-enchiridion/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus#cite_note-simpl1-11

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