The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
Forgiveness is a pillar of justice.
Proportion is the heart of beauty.
Hunger is the best seasoning.
Hope is a pillar of faith. It is pillar which holds our desired dreams.
When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement.
So…these Pillars of Hercules. Are they dangerous?” Annabeth stayed focused on the cliffs. “For Greeks, the pillars marked the end of the known world. The Romans said the pillars were inscribed with a Latin warning—” Percy said. Annabeth loo...
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade…. The deeper the discipline, the lower was the indivi...
Seven pillars of wisdom propping the roof of the temple. Always remember what there's beyond the pillars.
When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.
How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.
We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.
She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.
It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.
The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.
Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.
L'eccesso di orgoglio è un peccato molto diffuso, ma un uomo può frustrare altrettanto facilmente il volere di Dio per eccesso di umiltà.
