"Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things……" — Epictetus

"Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful."

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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 Delightful Quotes

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Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. — John Barrymore
How delightful to find a friend in everyone. — Joseph Brodsky
You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them. — Bill Bryson
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the… — Louisa May Alcott
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. — Lord Byron
Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its… — Arthur Dove
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss. — Edmund Spenser
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making… — William Cowper
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. — Doug Larson
I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of… — Helen Keller
We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep.… — Jerry Seinfeld
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when… — Alexander Smith

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