If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Quote by Epictetus
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If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
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Epictetus Quotes
- No great thing is created suddenly.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
- To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
- The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Best Quotes
- Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
- When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
- Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
- One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
- Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
- An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books.
- While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
- While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
- I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
- If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.