"Confident because of our caution" — Epictetus
"Confident because of our caution"
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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 Caution Quotes
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one of 354 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
— Russell Baker
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
— Joseph Addison
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
— Alfred Adler
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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
— Wernher von Braun
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does…
— Lydia M. Child
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Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates…
— Tom Platz
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When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident…
— Horace
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If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to…
— Leon Brown
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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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