“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
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Epictetus 175
philosopher from Ancient Greece 50–138Related quotes
Source: The Analects, Chapter VI
“Three things take the slave to God's pleasure:”
1) Increase in seeking forgiveness
2) Gentleness
3) Increased charity giving
Misnad al-Imām al-Jawād, p. 247
Religious Wisdom
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
Letter from Johnson to John Taylor, 18 August 1763. The Yale Book of Quotations edited by Fred R. Shapiro, pg 400.
This quotation's origin is actually unknown, however it is not found in the Dao De Jing.
生命是一连串的自发的自然变化。逆流而动只会徒增伤悲。接受现实，万物自然循着规律发展。
Misattributed
Variant: Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them — that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself a slave to it.”
