“Freedom is the right to live as we wish.”
Freedom
“No great thing is created suddenly.”
GreatAll Quotes by Epictetus
“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
Communication“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.”
Hope“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“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”
Hope“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
Nature“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“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
Best“No great thing is created suddenly.”
Great“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
Best“God has entrusted me with myself.”
God“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“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“It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”
Good“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“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.”
Religion“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Happiness“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“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