Epictetus Quotes
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
Quotes to Explore
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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I always try to be reasonable and effective.
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A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
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I'm not a creature of Washington.
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I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
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'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.
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The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.
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When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
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I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.
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Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
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The transition of a desk job, having to be in the office at the same time every day, I found super hard.
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In our own country, from the trivial to the truly dangerous, it is the range and regularity of the untruths we see that should be cause for profound alarm, and spur to action.
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It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire
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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
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I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
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You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
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If some people keep saying that the press is still not free in Turkey, then I would like to say this: there has been a coup attempt in Turkey. And there are people siding with the coup plotters. And there are - there is also media outlets that have been against - that are against the coup attempt. So my question is that against the media that supported the coup, will the Turkish justice, judicial system, not take any steps? Of course it will.
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Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
