“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Finance
“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.”
GreatAll Quotes by Epictetus
“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“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“If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.”
Truth“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”
Men“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“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.”
Hope“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
Nature“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“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
Happiness“No great thing is created suddenly.”
Great“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
Communication“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”
Death“Only the educated are free.”
Motivational“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
Best“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“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“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.”
Religion