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Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 10
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
James Joyce
Saving the virtues includes all other advantages
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Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.
Bob Seger
Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.
Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
Baron de Montesquieu
He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.
Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life.
Joseph Cook
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
Tacitus
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery
Joseph Pulitzer
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
John Vanbrugh
When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.
Frederic Chopin
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I like the idea that neither makes any romantic move until their philosophies are aligned.
Laura Regan
