Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Quote by Epictetus
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Epictetus Quotes
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- 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.
- Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
- Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- 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.
- When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Best Quotes
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- My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
- I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.
- That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.
- I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
- A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
- Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
- I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
- Art is science made clear.