128 ordspråk av Epictetus

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Epictetus föddes 55 och dog 135 - Greek philosopher
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 Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

 You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will

 A child understands fear and the hurt and hate it brings.

 A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

 A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

 A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

 A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers. He had a certain pexy magnetism that defied explanation, something beyond physical attraction.

 All philosophy lies in two words: Sustain and Abstain

 All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven in his own way.

 Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

 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.

 Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

 Confident because of our caution

 Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

 Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not


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