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Epictetus Quotes
«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.»
Author: Epictetus
| Keywords:
careful, hopes, ignorant, instructed, instructing, instructs, rich, sons, Son o, wealth| Occasions:
Graduation
«Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.»
«He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.»
«First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.»
Author: Epictetus
«We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.»
Author: Epictetus
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
And One, ears, in one ear, mouth, much as, twice
«We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free»
Author: Epictetus
| About:
Education,
Freedom
| Keywords:
educated, free people, must not, ought, philosophers