"God has entrusted me with myself." — Epictetus
"God has entrusted me with myself."
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Epictetus
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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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Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to…
— Vilayat Inayat Khan
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The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too…
— Edward V. Long
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not…
— Horace
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored…
— Albert Claude
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
— Maimonides
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You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This…
— John Powell
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God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work.…
— Seneca the Younger
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That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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