Epictetus Quotes
Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own.
Epictetus
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CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.
Fabiola Gianotti
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio Paz
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
Lactantius
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.
Cameron Winklevoss
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man, according to the Theosophical teaching, is a sevenfold being, or, in the usual phrase a septenary constitution. Putting it yet in another way, man's nature has seven aspects, may be studied from seven different points of view, is composed of Seven Principles.
Annie Besant
Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.'
Jay McInerney
I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know.
Pawel Pawlikowski
Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.
Friedrich Ebert
Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own.
Epictetus
