Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 25
There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.
Michelle Branch
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It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.
Thomas Malthus
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
Walter Savage Landor
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
Patrick Ness
![This [the intelligent design movement] isn\'t really, and never has been, a debate about science, it\'s about religion and philosophy.](/fotos/ac/ac5204973da26d417b15941d267b1b19.webp)
The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.
Frederic Chopin
I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.
Burt Ward
Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
Luc de Clapiers
Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.
Vanna Bonta
Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.
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We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.
VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
