"We tell lies, yet it is easy to…" — Epictetus

"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."

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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 Deceit Quotes

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that… — Hannah Arendt
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if… — Pietro Aretino
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect… — Jane Austen
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. — Francis Bacon
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of… — Stanley Baldwin
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. — Henry Adams
Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you… — Glenn Beck
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. — Theodor Adorno
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit. — Lucien Bouchard
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in… — Joseph Butler
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. — Taylor Caldwell
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. — Kim Cattrall

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