"Nature has given man one tongue, but two……" — Epictetus
"Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak"
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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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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
— Victoria Abril
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I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.
— Dave Attell
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the…
— Albert Bandura
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
— Dave Barry
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
— Mario Batali
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves…
— Thomas Beecham
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I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
— Adele
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all…
— Robert Benchley
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