It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Quote by Epictetus
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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Epictetus Quotes
- The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your 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.
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