Epictetus Quotes
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus
Quotes to Explore
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
Irwin M. Jacobs
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
Ralph Fiennes
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
Rachel Tucker
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Oscar Wilde
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
Isaac Barrow
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Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
Matthew Henry
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The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
Caitlin Doughty
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To come to peace with the moving on. It is a gift, in a way. We spend so much of our time fighting death, as we should. But sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves, and in turn the ones we love, is to know when to let go. To know when it is time—and to be at peace with that.
Daisy Whitney
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus
