“Upon the whole, a contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 54
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.”
“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time but from its loss.”
“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.”
“Either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or if at all, after death.”
“Whence come wars, and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lusts of the body?”
“The being of all virtues, and chiefly of temperance, depends on the practice of them.”
“In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.”