 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Women - 1853 - 946 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - Authors, Classical - 1861 - 632 pages
...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - Authors, Classical - 1861 - 634 pages
...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... | |
 | Epictetus - Ethics - 1865 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - Science - 1876 - 636 pages
...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... | |
 | Epictetus - 1877 - 174 pages
...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... | |
 | Delphian Society - Civilization - 1911 - 566 pages
...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... | |
 | Literature - 1916 - 1048 pages
...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... | |
 | Stephen French Whitman - 1916 - 540 pages
...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... | |
 | Epictetus - Ethics, Ancient - 1920 - 400 pages
...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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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. 
