No great thing is created suddenly.
Quote by Epictetus
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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Epictetus Quotes
- 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.
- Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- 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.
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- No great thing is created suddenly.
- First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Best Quotes
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- Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
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- Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
- Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
- The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
- We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
- Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
- A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.