The Civic Duty of Participation in Democracy

The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we have control over and what we don’t. Epictetus said,

“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…”

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