Epictetus Quotes
A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
Epictetus
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
Val McDermid
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. King
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
Olivia Thirlby
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
Hannah Storm
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr
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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain
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If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.
Aristotle
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A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand.
Adolf Bastian
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people were so kind and helpful and solid. Everyone pretended that our lives until that moment had been every bit as real as the moment itself and that the future must be real too, when the truth was that our reality had been purchased only by Lyell's death. In another hour or so we had all faded out again and gone our dim ways.
Walker Percy
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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
Epictetus
