It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Quote by Epictetus
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Epictetus Quotes
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- God has entrusted me with myself.
Best Quotes
- I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.
- Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
- Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
- It is better to live rich than to die rich.
- It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
- War is a contagion.
- I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
- Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
- One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
- A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.