Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid."" Any will do, " the rabbi replied in Provençal."Splendid. Latin it is, " said Pope Clement.
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
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William Goldman
Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
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Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? 'Make way, we are coming! Give us every right and don't you dare breathe a word before us. Pay us every sort of respect, such as no one's ever heard of, and we...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.
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Nirav Sanchaniya
Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory
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More Quotes By Iain Pears
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs...
[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in...
She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped...
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.
