"To adorn our characters by the charm of……" — Epictetus
"To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man."
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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 Adorn Quotes
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
— Robert Burns
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I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not…
— Jimmy Carter
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No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous…
— Corey Taylor
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What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger.…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to…
— Abraham Lincoln
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A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected…
— George Washington
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Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had…
— Melanie McGrath
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