"It doesn't take much to lose everything, just……" — Epictetus
"It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason"
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353 Quotes by Epictetus
Epictetus has 353 quotes on this site.
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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 Departure Quotes
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
— John Berger
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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
— Joe Biden
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Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become…
— David Bowie
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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies…
— Edmund Burke
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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point…
— Winston Churchill
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Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get…
— Tori Amos
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I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
— Mark Twain
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Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at…
— Paul de Man
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