Epictetus Quotes
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
Barbara Fialho
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
Ian Mckellen
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
Sam Donaldson
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
Patricia Cornwell
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
Natalie Dormer
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If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
Patrick Lencioni
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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days
Hafez
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There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.
Aristotle
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Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Plutarch
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Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.
Phylicia Rashad
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus