Epictetus on Nature
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Epictetus, catalogued under nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Epictetus, entry #78778: "Friend, bethink you first what it is that you would do, and then what your own nature is able to bear. ."
Attributed to Epictetus, entry #145962: "Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak."
5 Quotes by Epictetus on Nature
"Friend, bethink you first what it is that you would do, and then what your own nature is able to bear. ."
"Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak."
"Does a Philosopher apply to people to come and hear him? does he not rather, of his own nature, attract those that will be benefited by him—like the sun that warms, and the food that sustains them? ."
"This whole world is one great City, and one is the substance whereof it is fashioned: a certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide: yet all is full of friends—first God, then Men, whom Nature hath bound by ties of kindred each to each. ."
"How can it be that one who hath nothing, neither raiment, nor house, nor home, nor bodily tendance, nor servant, nor city, should live tranquil and contented? Behold God hath sent you a man to show you in act and deed that it may be so. Behold me! I have neither city nor house nor possessions nor servants: the ground is my couch; I have no wife, no children, no shelter—nothing but earth and sky, and one poor cloak. And what lack I yet? am I not untouched by sorrow, by fear? am I not free? ...when have I laid anything to the charge of God or Man? when have I accused any? hath any of you seen me with a sorrowful countenance? And in what wise treat I those to whom you stand in fear and awe? Is it not as slaves? Who when he seeth me doth not think that he beholdeth his Master and his King? ."