Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Quote by Epictetus
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Epictetus Quotes
- 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.
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
- 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.
- It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Best Quotes
- Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.
- I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
- Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
- The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.
- I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.
- Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
- I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.
- War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.