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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

  • Kara Jordanцитирует4 года назад
    there.

    "Friend, thou hast forgotten thine intention
  • Alexander Revinskyцитирует9 лет назад
    Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
  • Alexander Revinskyцитирует9 лет назад
    If is shameful for a Judge to be judged by others.
  • Minao94цитирует8 дней назад
    He that hath no musical instruction is a child in Music; he that hath no letters is a child in Learning; he that is untaught is a child in Life.
  • Minao94цитирует8 дней назад
    My brother ought not to have treated me thus."

    True: but he must see to that. However he may treat me, I must deal rightly by him. This is what lies with me, what none can hinder.
  • Minao94цитирует15 дней назад
    But when did you ever undertake a voyage for the purpose of reviewing your own principles and getting rid of any of them that proved unsound? Whom did you ever visit for that object? What time did you ever set yourself for that? What age
  • Minao94цитирует3 месяца назад
    Why? Because you have not stirred my spirit. For what can I see in you to stir me, as a spirited horse will stir a judge of horses? Your body? That you maltreat. Your dress? That is luxurious. You behavior, your look?—Nothing whatever. When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker."
  • Minao94цитирует3 месяца назад
    are all profited by what they hear, or only some among them? So that it seems there is an art of hearing as well as of speaking. . . . To make a statue needs skill: to view a statue aright needs skill also
  • Minao94цитирует3 месяца назад
    If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers.
  • Minao94цитирует3 месяца назад
    If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers.

    LXXX
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