Epictetus Quotes
Mon Feb 27, 2023 5:21 pm
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Only the educated are free.
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.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Only the educated are free.
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.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
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