“We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.”
Alone
“No great thing is created suddenly.”
GreatAll Quotes by Epictetus
“Only the educated are free.”
Motivational“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.”
Success“It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”
Good“Freedom is the right to live as we wish.”
Freedom“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“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
Best“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
Happiness“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”
Freedom“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“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
Freedom“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
Imagination“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Happiness“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Finance“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“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
Nature“If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.”
Truth“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.”
Religion“God has entrusted me with myself.”
God“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.”
Hope