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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c92cd38 | Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan. | Epictetus | ||
| 394487e | Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater. | Epictetus | ||
| 5ff445f | Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects. | Epictetus | ||
| b8d439e | It is difficulties that show what men are. | Epictetus | ||
| dd046fa | For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death. | Epictetus | ||
| 7b03854 | If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write. | Epictetus | ||
| e680284 | Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand: | Epictetus | ||
| 39e702c | Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men. (3). | Epictetus | ||
| aaff712 | Thou shalt not blame or flatter any. (6). | Epictetus | ||
| 836ea97 | Refuse altogether to take an oath if you can, if not, as far as may be. (166). | Epictetus | ||
| 6903d5b | Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account! | Epictetus | ||
| 8868841 | Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice.... None is a slave whose acts are free. | Epictetus | ||
| e40f681 | Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight. | Epictetus | ||
| 0d896f8 | Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful. | Epictetus | ||
| 7d37c97 | The anger of an ape--the threat of a flatterer:--these deserve equal regard. | Epictetus | ||
| 6180dde | A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope. | Epictetus | ||
| 8ed8093 | Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold. | Epictetus | ||
| 5fc25b5 | Think of God more often than thou breathest. | Epictetus | ||
| c632bf0 | Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee. | Epictetus | ||
| 069be2e | Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink. | Epictetus | ||
| 3faf6ca | Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none. | Epictetus | ||
| 484df7d | You are a little soul, carrying a corpse. | Epictetus | ||
| 7416c9a | The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man. | Epictetus | ||
| 870dc51 | The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will. | Epictetus | ||
| 771e6df | It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings. | Epictetus | ||
| e862956 | Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall. | Epictetus | ||
| 6bbfe5c | The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant. | Epictetus | ||
| 109c9d4 | Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them. | Epictetus | ||
| 18f3420 | There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty. | Epictetus | ||
| d4a387f | In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it. | Epictetus | ||
| ed3711e | He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing. | Epicurus | ||
| b9f13a0 | Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth. | Epicurus | ||
| 84f27b4 | What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole,Its body brevity, and wit its soul. | Epigrams | ||
| 5ad616a | Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia. | Epigrams | ||
| ea62f5e | Lycoris has buried all the female friends she had, Fabianus: would she were the friend of my wife! | Epigrams | ||
| 4ae50cd | What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole,Its body brevity, and wit its soul. | Epigrams | ||
| 916802f | Unlike my subject, I will make my song.It shall be witty, and it shan't be long. | Epigrams | ||
| 5817cab | Tell me why, must I fall in love with you? | Eric Clapton | ||
| 953559d | Thou art so witty, profligate and thin,At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin. | Epigrams | ||
| 3a647d8 | Episiotomies are used in emergency situations. | Episiotomy | ||
| 8e70060 | Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding. | Epistemic virtue | ||
| f7efa81 | But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in the most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. | Epistle of Jude | ||
| 5cefeb9 | He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. | Epistle to the Colossians | ||
| ece5dcf | So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. | Epistle to the Ephesians |