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Indifference Quote by Epictetus

“The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.” quote by Epictetus — Download Open image

“The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.”

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Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

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If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of…

Erwin W. Lutzer

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Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

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Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't…

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If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

Charles Lindbergh

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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

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I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

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Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that…

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One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

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Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to them ridiculous. Many persons have regarded it with indifference, because they have never felt its true disadvantages. But it is as a citizen that I attack it, because it seems to me harmful to the happiness…

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Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.

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