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."
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
"All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain."
"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
"If you would be a reader read if a writer write."
"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public."