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In this book, we meet and have coffee with Epictetus, a man born a slave who managed to become one of the most important teachers of human freedom. He does not speak to us of an ideal world, but of the real world: of the disappointments, losses, fears, and expectations that accompany every human life.
With simple and direct language, he shows us how to distinguish what depends on us from what does not, how to face difficulties without losing our dignity, and how to find strength where most see a dead end.
A book that does not promise to change the world around us, but the way we stand towards it. And perhaps that is why the ideas of Epictetus continue, twenty centuries later, to answer with such force the anxieties of modern man.
AN ENJOYABLE COFFEE WITH THE MAN WHO TAUGHT US THAT THE GREATEST VICTORY IS NOT TO CONQUER THE WORLD, BUT TO CONQUER OURSELVES.
(From the presentation on the back cover of the book)
