No great thing is created suddenly.
EpictetusImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EpictetusBut to be hanged—is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.
EpictetusFor it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.
EpictetusThese reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.
EpictetusCrows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.
EpictetusA guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.
EpictetusRemember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
EpictetusWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EpictetusTags: money happiness wealth contentment
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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