"No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself……" — Epictetus
"No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person."
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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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One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the…
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And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and…
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My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in…
— Ken Cuccinelli
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I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a…
— Brendan Fraser
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The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how…
— H. L. Mencken
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In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it…
— James Monroe
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The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In…
— James Monroe
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The American continents, by the free and independent condition that they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be…
— John Quincy Adams
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For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which…
— George Steiner
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It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and…
— Tim O'Brien
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In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does…
— James Monroe
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You can't tap your back for a job well done. You can't hug yourself for a comport. And you can't…
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