Epictetus

STATUS QUOtes — 20231223

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn’t convenient, comfortable, or easy.” — Epictetus

“When we denigrate mediocrity, we discourage ourselves and others from trying new things. It would be great to be a great painter, but it’s also great just to paint. Or sing or throw pots or knit scarves or play chess.” — Will Schwalbe

“The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it — right or wrong — may be given.” — Susanne Langer

“In the game of life it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.” — Bill Vaughan

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200219

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“Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.” — Epictetus

“Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.” — Louisa May Alcott

“General principles… are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.” — Samuel Coleridge

“I do clean up a little if company is coming; I’ll wipe the lipstick off the milk container.” — Elayne Boosler

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20181117

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“Vuja de – When you look at something you have seen many times before and all of a sudden you see it with fresh eyes.” — Adam Grant

“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.” — Epictetus

“If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.” — Charles Caleb Colton

“I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.” — Lily Tomlin

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20180530

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“The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.” — Chinese Proverb

“A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path — he does not mock and jeer at him.” — Epictetus

“It’s important that someone celebrate our existence… People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

“The closest I’ve been to a diet this year is erasing food searches from my browser history.” — Pauly Peligroso

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20180409

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“There is always room at the top.” — Daniel Webster

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” — Epictetus

“A fact is like a sack which won’t stand up when it is empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which have caused it to exist.” — Luigi Pirandello

“I am such a firm believer in the idea of ‘Free Press’ so much that I took my neighbors newspaper off his porch this morning.” — Tom Zegan

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20161204

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“If you want to stand for something, you can’t stand for everything.” — Unknown

“Be careful to leave your children well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. [ed]” — Epictetus

“The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.” — Baltasar Gracián

“To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler – and less trouble.” — Mark Twain

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160110

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“Progress is not created by contented people.” — Frank Tyger

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Be not deceived, every animal is attached to nothing so much as to its own interest.” — Epictetus

“The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.” — Unknown

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20150502

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“The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.” — Voltaire

“When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.” — Epictetus

“Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.” — E.E. Cummings

“Why is it, ‘A penny for your thoughts,’ but, ‘You have to put your two cents in?’… somebody’s making a penny.” — Steven Wright