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
- 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.
- Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- 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.
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
- I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.
- The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
- I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
- The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
- Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.
- The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
- Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
- The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
- For visions come not to polluted eyes.