{"author":"Epictetus","author_id":"Epictetus","total_quotes":135,"quotes":[{"text":"As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun.","author":"Epictetus","tags":["doing-good","humbleness","sun"],"id":126,"author_id":"Epictetus"},{"text":"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses  though he be not drunk.","author":"Epictetus","tags":["drinking"],"id":862,"author_id":"Epictetus"},{"text":"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.","author":"Epictetus","tags":["character","personality "],"id":2047,"author_id":"Epictetus"},{"text":"First say to yourself what you would be  and then do what you have to do.","author":"Epictetus","tags":["goals"],"id":6686,"author_id":"Epictetus"},{"text":"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.","author":"Epictetus","tags":["wealth","better","rich "],"id":11686,"author_id":"Epictetus"},{"text":"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, 'He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.","author":"Epictetus","tags":["history","humility","philosophy"],"id":15099,"author_id":"Epictetus"},{"text":"Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us  no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken  get to work on that.","author":"Epictetus","tags":["one","day"],"id":15579,"author_id":"Epictetus"},{"text":"All philosophy in two words  - sustain and abstain.","author":"Epictetus","tags":["appetite"],"id":16070,"author_id":"Epictetus"},{"text":"If you would be a reader  read  if a writer  write.","author":"Epictetus","tags":["writers","writing"],"id":18603,"author_id":"Epictetus"},{"text":"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.","author":"Epictetus","tags":["speak","listen","mouth "],"id":24328,"author_id":"Epictetus"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":135,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}