A Quote by Epictetus

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

Epictetus

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Nature Wisdom Be A Slave Foolish Pleasures Resist Slave Them Wise

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Epictetus
Greek - Philosopher
50 - 138

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

Adyashanti

I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are ugly or grotesque, and some wicked or foolish, but very many beautiful beyond any one we have ever seen, and that these are not far away... and the simple of all times and the wise men of ancient times have seen them and even spoken to them.

William Butler Yeats

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

Thomas Carlyle

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Rumi

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

Mary Russell Mitford

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Allan Lokos

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

Finley Peter Dunne

It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. Being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. Being wise selfish means being compassionate.

Dalai Lama

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

Edmund Burke

This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

George Eliot

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.