Quote #64
Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
More from Epictetus
- Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice:. None is a slave whose acts are free.
- Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
- Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
- The anger of an ape-the threat of a flatterer:-these deserve equal regard.
- Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.
- A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
- Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
- Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.