Epicharmus of Kos Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
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I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope).
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From nothing I have created another entirely new world.
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Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials, academics, or economists who know every science but the science of human nature.
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Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.
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It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.
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A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
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The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Women treat us men like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
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Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
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Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.
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Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?
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...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.
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The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.
