"It is unlikely that the good of a……" — Epictetus

"It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?"

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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…
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and…
Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not…
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

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From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the… — Aristotle
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle

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