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LEARN ABOUT A GREAT CHICAGO BLUES BAND, Chris Dooley and the Dooley Blues!! |
| Epictetus was a humble, Stoic Philosopher from the
1st and 2nd Century A.D. Born into slavery, he showed such promise that
his prominent Roman owner allowed Epictetus to take lessons from the
greatest Stoic teacher of the age, Musonius Rufus. He eventually gained
his freedom, was banished from Rome with the other philosophers and lived
out the remainder of his life teaching at his philosophical school in
Nicopolis (NW Greece, in the Prefecture of Preveza). Living to be what Lucian called "a marvelous old man", Epictetus always rejoiced in his freedom and praised God in gratitude. Epictetus wrote a beautiful hymn of praise which went like this: "Great is God, that He hath furnished us these instruments wherewith we shall till the earth. Great is God, that He hath given us hands, and power to swallow, and a belly, and power to grow unconsciously, and to breathe while asleep. Great is God, that He hath given
us the faculty to comprehend these things and to follow the path of
reason."
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