"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

Epictetus has 353 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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