"It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Selfishness Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“Iâ€™ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a â€œthin placeâ€â€“a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.”
“Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.”

Source : "Pål Brekke: Internationally renowned climate sceptic and solar expert". Interview with Siw Ellen Jacobsen, www.forskningsradet.no. February 29, 2008.
“Luther, bring the gatekeeper quickly!" Bell ordered. "Just how did you get in, Miss Drew?" "I came in at the entrance," Nancy replied. "The larkspur is beautiful.”

Source : Carolyn Keene (1960). “Nancy Drew 10: Password to Larkspur Lane”, p.102, Penguin
“If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.”

Source : Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.148, Simon and Schuster
“Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.”
“Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.”
“Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.”
“What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.”

You may also like:

Aristotle
Philosopher
Julius Caesar
Roman dictator
Lucretius
Poet
Plato
Philosopher
Plutarch
Biographer
Sallust
Politician
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher
Tacitus
Historian
Virgil
Poet