Quotes By 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.
Epictetus
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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.
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
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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.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
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You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
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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.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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