“Power pleases the violent and proud: wealth delights the placid and the timorous.”
Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 54
Fierce words to fuel your drive and remind you nothing can stop you.
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“Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.”
“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”
“Discretion is a perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.”
“Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.”
“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and some in prosperity.”
“Upon the whole, a contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.”
“On reason build resolve, that column of true majesty in man.”
“Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.”
“Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.”
“Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.”
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
“Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Pay it and do not neglect it.”
“Whence come wars, and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lusts of the body?”