YOU will confer the greatest benefits on your
city, not by raising the roofs, but by exalting
the souls of your fellow-citizens. For it is better
that great souls should live in small habitations
than that abject slaves should burrow in great
houses.
EPICTETUS. FRAGMENTS. 76.
AN unmusical person is a child in music; an
illiterate person, a child in learning; and an
untaught one, a child in life.
EPICTETUS. DISCOURSES. Book iii. §19. ¶1.
AS it is better to lie straitened for room upon
a little couch in health, than to toss upon a
wide bed in sickness : so it is better to contract
yourself within the compass of a small fortune
and be happy, than to have a great one and
be wretched.
EPICTETUS. FRAGMENTS. 21.
IT is not poverty that causes sorrow, but
covetous desires; nor do riches deliver from
fear, but reasoning. If therefore you acquire a
habit of reasoning, you will neither desire riches
nor complain of poverty.
EPICTETUS. FRAGMENTS.
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