He claimed that "Conduct me, Zeus, and thou o Destiny the way that I am bid by you to go" is amongst the maxims one must always keep at hand.
This man compared the impressions and opinions of the mind to the rays of light on a dish of water. He distinguished the "protreptic" and "elenctic" modes amongst the three modes of philosophical discussion. He claimed that "Conduct me, Zeus, and thou o Destiny the way that I am bid by you to go" is amongst the maxims one must always keep at hand. He also argued that one must always behave as at a dinner party, and that a father who runs away to weep when his child is ill behaves less naturally than a man who stays by his child's bedside. He used Aristotle's term prohairesis to refer to volition and the capacity for choice and asked "Must I then die lamenting?" to which he responded "I must be put in chains." He claimed "some things are in our control and some are not" at the beginning of one work, compiled by his student Arrian. For 10 points, name this former slave and Stoic, whose sayings were collected in his Enchiridion and Discourses.
This man compared the impressions and opinions of the mind to the rays of light on a dish of water.
{Epictetus}