"Reason is not measured by size or height,…" — Epictetus
"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle."
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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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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its…
— Gamaliel Bailey
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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can…
— Jack Black
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What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of…
— Lewis Black
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Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call…
— Jim Bolger
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at…
— Phillips Brooks
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
— Robert Browning
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No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
— James Caan
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
— Albert Camus
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