Epictetus Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

  Epictetus

  Beauty, Fitness, Philosophical

  "Society-89: The Essentials". Book by Jack Minnelpin (p. 28), August 1, 2006.

• If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Heart, Yield

• Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

  Epictetus

  Heart, Wish, Masters

• If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

  Epictetus

  Heart, Rose, Crowns

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.95

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