"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is……" — Epictetus
"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
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Epictetus
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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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More Accuse Quotes
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the…
— David Attenborough
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology…
— Hal Borland
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Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'
— Julie Burchill
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I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
— Hugo Chavez
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Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
— Lord Chesterfield
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You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush.
— Hillary Clinton
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Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.
— Joseph Sobran
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Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken…
— William Gurnall
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
— Eric Clapton
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To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has…
— Primo Levi
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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
— John Milton
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You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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