"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the……" — Epictetus
"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please."
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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 Bounds Quotes
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one of 239 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
— Arthur Ashe
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
— Teresa of Avila
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We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
— John O. Brennan
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
— Samuel Butler
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Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days,…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
— Florence Nightingale
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
— Robert Browning
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Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.
— William Shakespeare
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I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff…
— Cary Middlecoff
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A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
— Confucius
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of…
— Luigi Pirandello
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