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EPISODE · Jun 11, 2018 · 2 MIN

130. How Epictetus lost his lamp and the thief became a brute

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Epictetus tells the story of a thief stealing his lamp at night, and reflects on what each of them lost in the process. He concludes that he came ahead of the thief.

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