"God has pitted you against a rough antagonist……" — Epictetus
"God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil"
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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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The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of…
— Annie Besant
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
— Edmund Burke
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided…
— Joseph Addison
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The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a…
— James Madison
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which,…
— Nathaniel Branden
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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws…
— Joseph Addison
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