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
- 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.
- Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
- It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.
- To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
- I am not an accident neither will I cause an accident in your life. I was created to be a blessing and a joy to you.
- The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
- When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
- It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
- When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
- Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
- Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.