Discourses and Selected Writings
The other Stoic voice on gratitude: Epictetus — born enslaved, teaching in a rented room — argues that the power to make use of what happens is itself the gift, and that a rational being's proper response to existence is something close to continuous thanks. Goodreads 4.50.
Dobbin’s Penguin Classics edition is the standard English Discourses. Cited so the directory’s Stoic section rests on two voices, not one — the emperor and the freed slave arriving at the same practice from opposite ends of Roman society.
Lecture notes taken by a student (Arrian), from one teacher in one school; the Stoic "god" these texts thank is providence-as-reason, not a personal deity, and flattening that difference misreports the tradition. Philosophy, not evidence.
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