Body Quote by Epictetus Download Open image “Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.” — Epictetus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Body Chains Evil Fortune Soul Vices Wealth
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. — Boethius Copy Share Image
“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than she, turns… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of… — Menander Copy Share Image
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image