Quotes of: David-bowie Keyword

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

John Rawls

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Epictetus

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Epictetus

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Epictetus

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Epictetus

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Epicurus

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Epicurus

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus

Epictetus

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Epicurus

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

Epictetus

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

Epicurus

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

Epicurus

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Edmond Rostand

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A foe to God was never true friend to man

Edward Young

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Francis of Assisi

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

Francis of Assisi

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

F. H. Bradley