If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.
Weitere Zitate von Epictetus
Zum Autor"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."
"All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain."
"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, 'He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone."
"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public."
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."