"Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root,……" — Epictetus
"Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen."
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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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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no…
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at…
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Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift;…
— J. Reuben Clark
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All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends,…
— Derek A. Cuthbert
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Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people,…
— Justin Martyr
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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
— Al-Ghazali
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One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the…
— Charles Caldwell Ryrie
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Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color.…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
— Daniel Defoe
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Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust;…
— Unknown Author
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