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Perfect happiness is the absence of happiness; perfect glory is the absence of glory.
Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Tacitus, fully Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus NULL
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
We often glory in the most criminal passion; but that of envy is so shameful that we dare not even own it.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Difficulty | Glory | Reputation |
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
Knowledge is not a shop for profit or sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men’s estate.
With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.
Glory | Heart | Knowledge | Perfection | Reserve | Virtue | Virtue | Will |
The first thing I remember about the world – and I pray it may be the last – is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can see in my life.
Consistency | Desolation | Glory | Life | Life | World |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
The highest glory is won by the highest virtue.
Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim
There is a spirit in the soul, untouched by time and flesh, flowing from the Spirit, remaining in the Spirit, itself wholly spiritual. In this principle is God, ever verdant, every flowering in all the joy and glory of His actual Self. Sometimes I have called this principle the Tabernacle of the soul, sometimes a spiritual Light, anon I say it is a Spark. But now I say that it is more exalted over this and that than the heavens are exalted above the earth. So now I name it in a nobler fashion... It is free of all names and void of all forms. It is one and simple, as God is one and simple, and no man can in any wise behold it.
Earth | Glory | God | Joy | Light | Man | Self | Soul | Spirit | Time | Wise | God |
Death is not the greatest loss in life... The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the death of the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Awareness | Death | Glory | Life | Life | Man | Men | Pain | Tragedy | Loss | Awareness |
The tragedy of life is not death but in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the death of awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in oneself.
Awareness | Death | Glory | Life | Life | Man | Men | Pain | Tragedy | Awareness |
Nelson Mandela, fully Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we may fall.