Epictetus Stoicism Quotes

#1. Sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy.

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#2. I'm never not nervous before going onstage. Like ... what if I fall on my face?

Grace Gummer

#3. The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

Joseph Campbell

#4. O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

William Shakespeare

#5. People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

Alex Jones

#6. What would Heracles have been if he had said, "How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men?" What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.

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#7. If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.

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#8. It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.

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#9. No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.

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#10. Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. If summer had a flavor, it was pink bubble gum.

Sarah Jio

#12. Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.

Imre Lakatos

#13. Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.

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#14. Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

Jeff Abbott

#15. Don't complain because life is too short; appreciate because you are going through the most amazing journey called life.

Debasish Mridha

#16. For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.

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#17. The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive.

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#18. Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.

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#19. All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

John Ruskin

#20. It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#21. In an entirely causal universe, what a person thinks is dictated before that person even exists.

'Trick Slattery

#22. What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

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#23. Russell piped in singing, "Four pounds of back bacon, three French toasts, two turtlenecks, and a beer ... ." He leaned his body over Ellis. On the last line, Rob joined him. " ... in a tree!" They stopped, and Russell asked, "How does the beer stay in the tree? Wouldn't it fall out?

Wade Kelly

#24. No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood.

Stephen Curry

#25. I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes
all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught.

Harold Pinter

#26. There are two things that must be rooted out in human beings - arrogant opinion and mistrust. Arrogant opinion expects that there is nothing further needed, and mistrust assumes that under the torrent of circumstance there can be no happiness.

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