You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. — Boethius Copy Share Image
One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Thus doth the ever-changing course of things Run a perpetual circle, ever turning; And that same day, that highest glory brings, Brings… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Since our region is endowed with a lot of natural resources, including reasonable supplies of fresh water, we need and we can… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been… — John Knox Copy Share Image
Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of… — William James Copy Share Image
“In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed—a class… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such… — Baker Brownell Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
