Epictetus Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Libertarian, Moderation

• The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Happiness, You Make Me Happy

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

  Epictetus

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

• When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

  Epictetus

  Ideas, Imagination, Duration

  "Epictetus his morals: with Simplicius his comment".

• What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

  Epictetus

  Learning, Forgotten, Pleasure

• Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

  Epictetus

  Soul, Bait, Hook

  Epictetus (1890). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

• Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

  Epictetus

  Pain, Pleasure

  Epictetus (2012). “Discourses (Books 1 and 2)”, p.7, Courier Corporation

• Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Delight, Pleasure

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.192, Enhanced Media Publishing

• Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.

  Epictetus

  Drama, Men, Long

  Epictetus (2015). “The Enchiridion”, p.17, Xist Publishing

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