Marcus Aurelius and source checking. "Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. " - Marcus Aurelius I really do love this quote, and agree with the sentiment it espouses. Virtue for the sake of virtue is something anyone can aspire towards, and is one of the central principals of virtue ethics.
I'll start with the first one, Marcus Aurelius was a devout polytheist and there is no indication in his thoughts about doubting the existence of the gods, (II.11, trans. Secondly and perhaps the more obvious of the two "tells", is that the quote implies that living on in the memories of your loved ones is something to aspire to, through leading a virtuous life. A little due diligence goes a long way. Quotes about anything and everything. Quotes. Quotes About Moving On After Relationship | Moving On Quotes After Relationship. Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein. [Note: This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet in e-mail, so I decided to put it on my web page. I'm afraid I can't vouch for its authenticity, tell you where it came from, who compiled the list, who Kevin Harris is, or anything like that.
Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening.] "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. " "Imagination is more important than knowledge. " Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement) Book - Theres a battle of two wolves inside us&all. Everything Random. Simón Bolívar. De Wikiquote, la colección libre de citas y frases célebres. Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (n. Caracas; 24 de julio de 1783 - m.
Santa Marta, Colombia; 17 de diciembre de 1830), conocido simplemente como Simón Bolívar, fue un militar y político venezolano, fundador de la Gran Colombia y una de las figuras más destacadas de la emancipación americana frente al Imperio Español. Contribuyó de manera decisiva a la independencia de Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Perú, Colombia y Panamá. Citas[editar] «¡Colombianos! Sobre los indios[editar] «El indio es de un carácter apacible que sólo desea el reposo y la soledad». (1815ª: 87). Sobre la Provincia de Pasto[editar] «El nuevo general Jiménez ha marchado ya para el Sur con 1.500 hombres, contra los asesinos de tan ilustre víctima. Citas sobre Simón Bolívar[editar] «En lo que toca al estilo prejuiciado, ciertamente me he salido algo del tono enciclopédico. Citas atribuidas[editar] Referencias[editar] Leo Tolstoy. The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy [Ле́в Никола́евич Толсто́й] (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910) was a Russian writer, philosopher and social activist credited as a major influence on Christian anarchism; his name is usually rendered into English as Leo Tolstoy, and sometimes Tolstoi. See also: A Calendar of Wisdom Quotes[edit] The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. God is that infiniteAll of which man knows himself to be a finite part. The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.Sevastopol in May (1855), Ch. 16Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. Family Happiness (1859)[edit] I longed for activity, instead of an even flow of existence. Wikiquote. Margaret Fuller. To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops.
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor. Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (23 May 1810 – 19 June 1850) was an American author, journalist, critic and women's rights activist. She, her husband, and their child all died at the end of a five week voyage from Europe in a shipwreck just off of Fire Island. Sourced[edit] It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! There is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood. I accept the universe. I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.