If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means and if you find truth you will become invincible.
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Author: 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.
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.
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.
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.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing religion will always be sacrificed.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing religion will always be sacrificed.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures but the foolish to be a slave to them.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Only the educated are free.
Only the educated are free.
Men are disturbed not by things but by the view which they take of them.
Men are disturbed not by things but by the view which they take of them.
Imagine for yourself a character a model personality whose example you determine to follow in private as well as in public.
Imagine for yourself a character a model personality whose example you determine to follow in private as well as in public.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor or our life with one hope.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor or our life with one hope.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor nor should life rest on a single hope.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor nor should life rest on a single hope.
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.
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.
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.
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.