epictetus was a stoicstoic
a stoic practices stoicism, the hellenistic philosophy founded by zeno of citium (c. 335-252 bc) who studied with plato's successors at the academy in athens. zeno taught at the stoa, meani....
If a philosopher's words fail to produce [the realization that the listener is in a bad way], they're lifeless and the speaker's a corpse too. (Discourses 3.23.8)
Cf. deleuzedeleuze
gilles deleuze (18 january 1925 - 4 november 1995) was a french philosopher and, to me, the philosopher's philosopher and a sage. his work grapples with difference, creativity, though...
The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy that saddes no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful.