"The materials are indifferent, but the use we……" — Epictetus

"The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference."

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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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More Indifference Quotes

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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the… — Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. — Edmund Burke
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. — Lord Byron
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. — Albert Camus
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that… — Albert Camus
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of… — Bliss Carman
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. — Charlie Chaplin
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier… — Watchman Nee
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by… — Norman Angell
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God… — Nikolai Berdyaev

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