Epictetus: Slave and Sage
Self-mastery, over both emotions and thoughts, is an invaluable skill that every person should work to acquire.
The Great Conversation: Rhetoric
The techniques of persuasion have been so habitually separated from logic and wisdom, it’s assumed that rhetoric is persuasion through bad reasons for bad purposes. But in truth, the art of persuasion is as necessary for good arguments as it is for bad ones.
