It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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Epictetus
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About Epictetus
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia and lived in Rome until his banishment, after which he spent the rest of his life in Nicopolis in northwestern Greece.
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ri…
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then…
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach tow…
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Only the educated are free.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach tow…
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ri…
No great thing is created suddenly.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.