Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ...1827 - 188 páginas |
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... Epictetus , the Stoic Philosopher . Epictetus , who lies here , was a slave and a cripple ; poor as the beggar in the proverb , and the favourite of heaven . Virtue has secret charms , which all men love ; And those that do not choose ...
... Epictetus , the Stoic Philosopher . Epictetus , who lies here , was a slave and a cripple ; poor as the beggar in the proverb , and the favourite of heaven . Virtue has secret charms , which all men love ; And those that do not choose ...
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... Epictetus . DRUNKENNESS is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory ; of a constitution so treacherously good , that it never bends until it breaks ; or of a me- mory that recollects the pleasures of getting drunk , but ...
... Epictetus . DRUNKENNESS is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory ; of a constitution so treacherously good , that it never bends until it breaks ; or of a me- mory that recollects the pleasures of getting drunk , but ...
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... Epictetus's Morals . Trouble not yourself with wishing that things may be just as you would have them , but be well pleased they should be just as they are , and then you will live easy.-Ib. Repentance without amendment is like ...
... Epictetus's Morals . Trouble not yourself with wishing that things may be just as you would have them , but be well pleased they should be just as they are , and then you will live easy.-Ib. Repentance without amendment is like ...
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... Epictetus used to say " That one of the vulgar , in any ill that happens to him , blames others ; a novice in philosophy blames himself ; and a philosopher blames neither the one nor the other . " Francis Bacon . From scenes of virtuous ...
... Epictetus used to say " That one of the vulgar , in any ill that happens to him , blames others ; a novice in philosophy blames himself ; and a philosopher blames neither the one nor the other . " Francis Bacon . From scenes of virtuous ...
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... and it is too great an advantage , which you give him over yourself , if you put it in his power to say whether your mind shall be easy or not . - Stanhope's Epictetus . POETS AND RHYMERS . Let me for once presume to 99.
... and it is too great an advantage , which you give him over yourself , if you put it in his power to say whether your mind shall be easy or not . - Stanhope's Epictetus . POETS AND RHYMERS . Let me for once presume to 99.
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