"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and…" — Epictetus
"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."
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353 Quotes by Epictetus
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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people…
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and…
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Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
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Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not…
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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More Abstain Quotes
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one of 92 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
— Saint Augustine
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When you doubt, abstain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from…
— Carre Otis
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Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of…
— George Washington
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"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one…
— Ayn Rand
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We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no…
— John Randolph of Roanoke
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Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for…
— Bridget of Sweden
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality,…
— Seneca the Younger
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Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been…
— Henry David Thoreau
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