💬 Quotes

"Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks and mummeries of the world."

"Blessed be the name of the Lord, who has permitted me to suffer this day for His name's sake, and to seal His truth with my blood."

"Die Tugend ist also eine Mittelstellung, die sich auf das Richtige richtet."

"Das Glück ist eine Tätigkeitsweise der Seele gemäß der vollkommenen Tugend."

"Niemand ist freiwillig schlecht, noch ist jemand unfreiwillig selig."

"Die Freundschaft scheint das Band zu sein, das die Staaten zusammenhält."

"Das sittlich Gute wird um seiner selbst willen erstrebt und ist lobenswert."

"Die Vernunft ist in uns das Herrschende und das von Natur aus Führende."

"The greater the general peace of an organism, the less it tends to be affected by a changing external environment."

"You must not let your life run in the ordinary grooves; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's greatness resides in man."

"Whereoever you are, you can whisper secret, sweet prayers to God, and He will answer."

"Plain living is easily achievable, but high thinking is hard in this age. Yet, the ideal must be kept before us if we would conquer our lower nature."

"Attachment is the great snare of maya. Give up desire and you will be free."

"The apparent brevity of life should chasten us; it is a constant reminder that we are only temporary actors on the stage of time."

"Wisdom without equity is to be called cunning rather than wisdom."

"Not for ourselves alone are we born, but our country claims for itself one part of our birth, and our friends another."

"There is no such thing as a mean advantage; deceit may give a temporary triumph, but it can never be for one's permanent interest."

"To err is human, to persevere in error is diabolical (or rather, characteristic of a stubborn mind). He who is noble and brave is ever the most unconcerned with danger and the least subject to panic."

"No man can live happily who regards only himself, who turns everything to his own advantage. You must live for others if you wish to live for yourself."

"Justice is the queen of all the virtues."