Quote #68
Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.
More from Epictetus
- A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
- Think of God more often than thou breathest.
- The anger of an ape-the threat of a flatterer:-these deserve equal regard.
- Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
- Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
- Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
- Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
- Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clap…