No great thing is created suddenly.
Quote by Epictetus
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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Epictetus Quotes
- 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.
- Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- 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.
- When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
- Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
- God has entrusted me with myself.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- 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.
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