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A True Story About How Stoicism Saved a Prisoner of War: 7 Tips for Your Own Life: 7 tips for your own life. Stan Rivers, a retired Navy pilot in Vietnam, shares his thoughts on Stoicism. Epictetus is known amongst philosophers for his teachings on suffering. Success is never certain, but suffering is - it is best to prepare for it, says Stan Rivers. For a military man who had seen the brutality of war for decades, such an acceptance of human frailty would be attractive.