Epicharmus of Kos Quotes

The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.

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• Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Thoughts
  • Habit
  • Circumstances

• 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.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Man is many things, but he is not rational.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Things
  • Rational

• We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope).

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Done
  • Hope
  • Focus

• From nothing I have created another entirely new world.

  

  Janos Bolyai
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Created

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Confess
  • Satisfactory
  • Political Evil

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Deeds

• A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friend
  • Existence
  • Consciousness

• The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Understanding
  • Level
  • Tests

• The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

  

  William Cowper
  • Earth
  • Virtue
  • Flower

• As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Unique
  • Persons
  • Grow

• I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Advice
  • States
  • Continue

• In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.

  

  Edwin Black
  • Goods
  • Teenagers
  • Boycott

• Today, men and women in uniform ... work so hard on our behalf to protect our freedom (and) our liberty. As they give their best for us, we want to be there for them, ... The good news for returning veterans is that the demand for skilled talent is very strong.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Nice
  • Start
  • Obsessive

• You've got too many formats adult contemporary, adult alternative, soft rock, neo-soul come on! ... I'm hoping I will fit in all the marketplaces and not be limited to one place in music.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Rock

• The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.

  

  Epicharmus of Kos
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  • Give Us