Dissections During The Renaissance Quotes & Sayings

While everyone cannot set aside enough money for generations to come, there is one thing, you can pass on, even if you have no money: a good name. — Idowu Koyenikan

Spitters are Quitters — Tara Sivec

The vocation of putting people straight, of tearing off their masks, of forcing them to face the repressed truth, is a highly dangerous and destructive calling, — Melody Beattie

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's a law of survival, isn't it? - to seek the best. I didn't come for your sake. I came for mine. — Ayn Rand

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. — Jeannette Rankin

Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if men were expected to rise for the sake of others, in America. — William Dean Howells

I love old places," she said. "They have weight to them. Sometimes New York feels so transitory. Even London with all its history doesn't have the same feel as Scotland."
"The cities are too busy." He shifted so he blocked some of the wind for her. "The quiet is deep here." She glanced up at him, surprised by how well he understood her thoughts. "That's exactly what it is. Deep quiet. — Carla Laureano

The illustrious ancients,when they wished to make clear and to propagate the highest virtues in the world, put their states in proper order. Before putting their states in proper order, they regulated their families. Before regulating their families, they cultivated their own selves. Before cultivating their own selves, they perfected their souls. Before perfecting their souls, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before trying to be sincere in their thoughts, they extended to the utmost their knowledge. — Will Durant