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readthenotes1yesterday at 11:06 PM1 replyview on HN

Worth it just for footnote 1 on the history of the serenity prayer


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advaelyesterday at 11:30 PM

It's really interesting where we draw the boundary of originality. That there is significant controversy about who originated the particular words of the serenity prayer surprised me, because I've always thought of that prayer as simply a particularly catchy rephrasing of the most well-remembered sections of Epictetus' Enchiridion