We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
Quote by Epictetus
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We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
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Epictetus Quotes
- Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- 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.
- It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- 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.
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Only the educated are free.
- 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.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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