"It’s time to stop being vague. If you……" — Epictetus
"It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become."
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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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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and…
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I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
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I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
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I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.
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I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander…
— Fidel Castro
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
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You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.
— Saint Augustine
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The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
— Peter McWilliams
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
— Robert Browning
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is…
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