"What will the world be quite overturned when…" — Epictetus
"What will the world be quite overturned when you die?"
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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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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular…
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone…
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to…
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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