Epictetus Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

• Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

  Epictetus

  Wish, Doe, Slave

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.6, Courier Corporation

• Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

  Epictetus

  Want, Slave, Be A Slave

• You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

  Epictetus

  Mean, House, Soul

  Epictetus (1877). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”, p.422

• If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

  Epictetus

  Purple, Complaining, Slave

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