Quote #66
The anger of an ape-the threat of a flatterer:-these deserve equal regard.
More from Epictetus
- Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
- A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
- Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
- Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.
- Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice:. None is a slave whose acts are free.
- Think of God more often than thou breathest.
- Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
- Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.