“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.”
ImaginationAll Quotes by Epictetus
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Happiness“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
Best“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Finance“God has entrusted me with myself.”
God“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”
Freedom“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”
Anger“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”
Death“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
Freedom“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“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“No great thing is created suddenly.”
Great“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
Happiness“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.”
Hope“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”
Hope“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.”
Religion“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
Nature“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
Imagination“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“It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”
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