“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”
Hope
“If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.”
TruthAll Quotes by Epictetus
“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
Communication“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“Only the educated are free.”
Motivational“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
Nature“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”
Death“God has entrusted me with myself.”
God“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
Best“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.”
Hope“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
Freedom“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”
Freedom“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
Imagination“Freedom is the right to live as we wish.”
Freedom“No great thing is created suddenly.”
Great“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.”
Great“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”
Men“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“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