Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Quote by Epictetus
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Epictetus Quotes
- First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- No great thing is created suddenly.
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- 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.
- It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
- Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Best Quotes
- As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
- I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.
- This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
- I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
- Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.
- I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
- There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.
- The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.