12 December 2020 Epictetus Do not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood.
3 December 2020 Epictetus Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
3 December 2020 Epictetus Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
3 December 2020 Epictetus 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.
3 December 2020 Epictetus It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
3 December 2020 Epictetus There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
3 December 2020 Epictetus Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
3 December 2020 Epictetus 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.
3 December 2020 Epictetus 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.
3 December 2020 Epictetus 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.
3 December 2020 Epictetus The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
3 December 2020 Epictetus Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
3 December 2020 Epictetus The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
3 December 2020 Epictetus 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.
3 December 2020 Epictetus Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
3 December 2020 Epictetus If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
3 December 2020 Epictetus It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
3 December 2020 Epictetus It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
3 December 2020 Epictetus Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
3 December 2020 Epictetus Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
3 December 2020 Epictetus When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
