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.
Weitere Zitate von Epictetus
Zum Autor"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public."
"Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken get to work on that."
"If you would be a reader read if a writer write."
"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."
"All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain."