Epictetus Quotes
Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
Epictetus
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
Hans Bender
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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
Yitzhak Navon
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
D'Angelo
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
Yael Naim
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And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.
T.A. Barron
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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.
Sara Teasdale
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Edmund White
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Charles Baudelaire
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Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
Epictetus