What did Epictetus mean by: Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul. - Epictetus Philosopher · Greece Copy
+ What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else Explain Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Epictetus, Decision, Responsibility, 0 - Epictetus Philosopher · Greece
+ To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God Explain Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Epictetus, Beauty, Nature, Worship, 0 - Epictetus Philosopher · Greece
+ Desire and happiness cannot live together. Explain Feraz Zeid, July 4, 2023December 24, 2023, Epictetus, Desire, Together, 0 - Epictetus Philosopher · Greece
+ Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 20, 2022January 10, 2024, Epictetus, Control, Desire, Freedom, 0 - Epictetus Philosopher · Greece
+ Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle. Feraz Zeid, June 20, 2023December 12, 2023, Epictetus, Principles, 0 - Epictetus Philosopher · Greece
+ Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them Explain Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Epictetus, Mindset, Perception, Perspective, 0 - Epictetus Philosopher · Greece
+ Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Epictetus, Events, Meaning, 0 - Epictetus Philosopher · Greece
+ The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Epictetus, Company, Uplifting, 0 - Epictetus Philosopher · Greece
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. - Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
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