"It is the nature of the wise to……" — Epictetus
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."
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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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I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In…
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like…
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here…
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that…
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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road…
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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