"A ship ought not to be held by……" — Epictetus

"A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a singe hope."

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353 Quotes by Epictetus

Epictetus has 353 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people…
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and…
Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not…
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

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More Anchor Quotes

This quote is filed under Anchor Quotes, one of 235 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away… — Ezra Taft Benson
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley
We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the… — Kirk Cameron
For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me… — Kirk Cameron
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel… — Emile M. Cioran
My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk… — Demi Lovato
Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by… — June Hunt
How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. — Antonio Machado
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them… — Ulysses S. Grant
A babe is a mother's anchor. — Henry Ward Beecher

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