Hortensius By Cicero Quotes & Sayings

If I could remember their singing and write down the notes, no man who read that score would ever grow sick or old. — C.S. Lewis

You have truly gained the mastery of the very stronghold of philosophy, Mother. For without doubt only for lack of words you did not elaborate on this subject as did Tullius [Cicero], whose words will follow. For in the Hortensius, the book he wrote on the praise and defense of philosophy, he said: 'But see, surely not the philosophers but all given to argument say that those who live just as they wish are happy.' This is definitely false; for to want what is not appropriate is the worst of all miseries. It is not so miserable not to get what you want as to want to get what you ought not. Wickedness of will brings to everyone greater evil than good fortune brings good. — Augustine Of Hippo

When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership — Sujit Lalwani

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today. — Hans Kung

Everything we do is political," she says. "Even the things we choose not to do. — Aline Ohanesian

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one's worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up. — Georg Simmel