“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
Nature
“No great thing is created suddenly.”
GreatAll Quotes by Epictetus
“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 toward it.”
Happiness“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
Best“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”
Freedom“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
Happiness“To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.”
Education“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.”
Hope“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
Best“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 ripen.”
Great“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Happiness“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”
Hope“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”
Anger“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
Freedom“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Finance“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 ripen.”
Time“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”
Men“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
Imagination“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”
Death“Freedom is the right to live as we wish.”
Freedom“Only the educated are free.”
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