More From Epictetus
- "Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort."
- "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
- "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
More In God
- "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."― James Russell Lowell
- "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."― Aeschylus
- "There’s a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction."― Major Owens