| Quotes |
Topic |
| Abstinence | All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. |
| Advice | Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. |
| Advice | The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. |
| All About Love | A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. |
| Ambition | First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. |
| Body | It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse. |
| Books and Reading | If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. |
| Education | Only the educated are free. -Epictetus. |
| Education | Only the educated are free. |
| Goodness | If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. |
| Listening | Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. |
| Miscellaneous | We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. |
| Miscellaneous | What will the world be quite overturned when you die? |
| Negativity | Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. |
| Perception | Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus. |
| Perfection | One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. |
| Perspective | No man is free who is not a master of himself. |
| Philosophy | The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. |
| Philosophy | All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. |
| Proverbs | Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod? |
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