No great thing is created suddenly.... -Epictetus

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No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus , Philosopher
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Epictetus was an influential Stoic philosopher, known for his teachings on ethics, virtue, and inner peace. His philosophical insights continue to be studied and embraced as valuable guides to leading a meaningful life.

Epictetus Quotes to Explore

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best....
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope....
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them....
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them....
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope....
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant....
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked....
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it....
God has entrusted me with myself....
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anyth...

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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure....
From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people, he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increa...
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven....
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers....
I was filming in Roscrea in Co Tipperary. I had great fun watching monks in the monastery there making bread. They even offered me a job as their main...
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities....
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept put...
I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I...
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day....
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic....