The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Quote by Epictetus
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Epictetus Quotes
- No great thing is created suddenly.
- God has entrusted me with myself.
- 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.
- Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
- Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
- No greater thing 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.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Best Quotes
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- The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
- Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
- Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
- Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
- Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
- Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
- I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.