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" As it is better to lie straitened for room upon a little couch in health, than to toss upon a wide bed in sickness, so it is better to contract yourself within the compass of a small fortune and be happy, than to have a great one and be wretched. "
The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved ... - Strona 345
autor: Epictetus - 1807
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Woman's Record: Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from "the Beginning ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1853 - Liczba stron: 946
...for room upon a little couch in health, than to toss upon a wide bed in sickness ; so it is better to contract yourself within the compass of a small...happy, than to have a great one, and be wretched. 10. It is better, by yielding to truth, to conquer opinion; than by yielding to opinion, to be defeated...
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A Compendium of Classical Literature: Comprising Choice Extracts Translated ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1861 - Liczba stron: 632
...for room upon a little conch in health, than to toss upon a wide bed in sickness ; so it is better to contract yourself within the compass of a small...happy, than to have a great one, and be wretched. FORTUNE VS. CHARACTER. A horse is not elated, and doth not value himself on his fine manger or trappings,...
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A Compendium of Classical Literature: Comprising Choice Extracts Translated ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1861 - Liczba stron: 634
...little conch in health, than to toss upon a wide bed in sickness; so it is better to contract yonrself within the compass of a small fortune, and be happy, than to have a great one, and be wrctched. FORTUNE VS. CHARACTER. A horse is not elated, and doth not value himself on his fine manger...
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The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the ...

Epictetus - 1865 - Liczba stron: 468
...for room upon a little couch, in health, than to toss upon a wide bed in sickness, so it is better to contract yourself within the compass of a small...covetous desires ; nor do riches deliver from fear, but only reasoning. If therefore you acquire a habit of reasoning, you will neither desire riches, nor...
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Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Tomy 3-4

Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - 1876 - Liczba stron: 636
...379.) " To be happy is a good object and in your own power" (do Fragment, xix Didot.) "It is better to contract yourself within the compass of a small fortune and be happy, than to liave a great one and be wretched." (do Frag, xxir, Didot, xxi, Higginson.) In the original of the...
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Selections from Epictetus

Epictetus - 1877 - Liczba stron: 174
...for room unon a little couch, in health, than to toss upon a wide bed in sickness, so it is better to contract yourself within the compass of a small...be happy, than to have a great one and be wretched. VI. (xxv.) Let the first satisfaction of appetite be always the measure to you of eating and drinking...
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The World's Progress: With Illustrative Texts from Masterpieces of ..., Część 3

Delphian Society - 1911 - Liczba stron: 566
...straitened for room upon a little couch in health than to toss upon a wide bed in sickness, so it is better to contract yourself within the compass of a small...be happy, than to have a great one and be wretched. SUNSHINE. . As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations to be prevailed on to rise, but immediately...
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The Century, Tom 91

1916 - Liczba stron: 1048
...troubles seem to come from wanting something you are not sure would make you happy. As Epictetus said, 'It is not poverty that causes sorrow, but covetous...will neither desire riches nor complain of poverty.' " "Ha! All very nice, Mr. Gootschild, for them who has no ambitions! But me!" Otto thumped the coffee-stained...
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Children of Hope: A Novel

Stephen French Whitman - 1916 - Liczba stron: 540
...troubles seem to come from wanting something you are not sure would make you happy. As Epictetus said, ' It is not poverty that causes sorrow, but covetous...will neither desire riches nor complain of poverty.' " " Ha ! All very nice, Mr. Gootschild, for them who has no ambitions ! But me ! " Otto thumped the...
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The Moral Discourses of Epictetus

Epictetus - 1920 - Liczba stron: 400
...straitened for room upon a little couch in health, than to toss upon a wide bed in sickness, so it is better to contract yourself within the compass of a small...be happy, than to have a great one and be wretched. It is not poverty that causes sorrow, but covetous desires ; w nor do riches deliver from fear, but...
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