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Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.
Envy |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.
Envy |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Infinite mercy flows continually But you're asleep and can't see it.
Envy |
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
Listen, I entreat you, all that are careful for this life, and procure books that will be medicines for the soul… get at least the New Testament, the Apostolic Epistles, the Acts, the Gospels, for your constant teachers. If grief befalls you, dive into them as into a chest of medicines; take from there comfort for your trouble, be it loss, or death, or bereavement of relations; or rather do not merely dive into them but take them wholly to yourself, keeping them in your mind.
Envy |
There cannot be a supreme evil, because... although evil always lessens good, yet it never wholly consumes it; and thus, since good always remains, nothing can be wholly and perfectly bad.
Sallust, full name Carus Valerius Sailustius Crispus NULL
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Distinction | Envy |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
There is no part of history so generally useful as that which relates to the progress of the human mind, the gradual improvement of reason, the successive advances of science, the vicissitudes of learning and ignorance, the extinction and resuscitation of arts, and the revolutions of the intellectual world. - If accounts of battles and invasions are peculiarly the business of princes, the useful and elegant arts are not to be neglected, and those who have kingdoms to govern have understandings to cultivate.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Were a man not to marry a second time, it might be concluded that his first wife had given him a disgust to marriage; but by taking a second wife, he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Desire | Diligence | Disease | Envy | Money | Nothing | Regard | Respect | Torture | Wealth | Wise | Respect | Value |
Cyprian, aka Saint Cyprian of Carthage, fully Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus NULL
The world is going mad in mutual bloodshed. And murder, which is considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse. The offenders acquire impunity by increasing their ravaging.
Gregory Nazianzen, aka Saint Gregory of Nazianzus or Gregory the Theologian
[A doctor] preserves, if it already exists, the health and good habit of the flesh, or if absent, recalls it… But the scope of our art is to provide the soul with wings, to rescue it from the world and give it to God.
Envy | Glory | God | Heaven | Mother | Reason | Soul | Will | God | Afraid | Understand |