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Something Quotes by Epictetus
- Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the…
- It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
- Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something…
- When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
- To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in…
- When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation…
- The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
- Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch…
- Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle