“Only the educated are free.”
Motivational
“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
“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“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Finance“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
Communication“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
Best“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”
Hope“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
Best“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“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
Imagination“No great thing is created suddenly.”
Great“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.”
Religion“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
Freedom“God has entrusted me with myself.”
God“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“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”
Death“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
Happiness“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“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