"Seek to be the purple thread in the…" — Epictetus
"Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown."
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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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More Gown Quotes
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Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes…
— Moliere
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No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
— Martin Luther
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I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business…
— Victoria Beckham
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
— Moliere
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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the…
— William Hazlitt
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle…
— Walter Raleigh
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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
— Douglas William Jerrold
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I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag.
— Joan Rivers
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Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's…
— Elle Fanning
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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire…
— Beatrix Potter
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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I…
— John Milton
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