Epictetus Quotes
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Epictetus. The Works of Epictetus. Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, The Enchiridion, and Fragments. Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Little, Brown, and Company, 1865, p. 417.
This was typical of Bloomberg’s candor and honesty. He was willing to admit his own use of marijuana while at the same time supporting the laws that made marijuana illegal.
Epictetus (/ˌɛpɪkˈtiːtəs/; Greek: Ἐπίκτητος, Epíktētos; c. 50 – c. 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece for the rest of his life. His teachings were written down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses and Enchiridion.
