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

Other quotes and quotations :

• Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. Charles Caleb Colton
• Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
• Penny wise is often pound foolish. French Proverb
• The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones. Spanish Proverb
• Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. Epictetus
• The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. Epictetus
• Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. Charles Caleb Colton
• Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. Karl Kraus
• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet. Julius Robert Oppenheimer
• The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. Ralph Waldo Emerson