Fragments Quotes

“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.”
― Epictetus, Fragments

“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”
― Epictetus, Fragments

“Time relieves the foolish from sorrow, but reason relieves the wise.”
― Epictetus, Fragments

“For making a good voyage a pilot and wind are necessary: and for happiness, reason and art.”
― Epictetus, Fragments

“When we are invited to a banquet, we take what is put before us. If someone should order the host to serve him fish or pastries, he would seem eccentric. But out in the world, we ask the gods for things they do not give us─even though there are many things they have given us.”
― Epictetus, Fragments