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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years ago
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"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding." **Epicurus **
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years ago
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"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly." Epictetus
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." **Socrates **
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"The beginning is the chiefest part of any work." Plato Quo
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own." Aristotle
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." Plato Quo
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which…
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." Epictetus
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." Epictetus
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." Plato Quo
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils." Plato Quo
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." Epictetus
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Plato Quo
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom…
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music." **Diogenes **
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"Change in all things is sweet." Aristotle
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other…
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." Plato Quo
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." Epictetus
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history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 7 years ago
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"When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door." **Plutarch **
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