Epictetus Quotes
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Quotes to Explore
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
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If what I went through on a national level, the trouble between me and my wife, if it helps one couple going through the same thing... if it saves one family, it's worth it.
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They said that I had sold out and Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.
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I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
