The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

About Epictetus

Epictetus (, EH-pick-TEE-təss; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἐπίκτητος, Epíktētos; c. 50 – c. 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present-day Pamukkale, in western Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he spent the...

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