"What disturbs people's minds are not events but……" — Epictetus
"What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events."
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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 Disturbs Quotes
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.
— Judith Orloff
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Art disturbs, science reassures.
— Georges Braque
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Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to…
— John Cage
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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces…
— Leo Tolstoy
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For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
— William Cowper
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My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work…
— Louise Bourgeois
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A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be…
— Louise Bourgeois
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Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of…
— M. King Hubbert
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For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those…
— Hafez
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