Apathy Quote by Alexander Pope Download Open image “In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.” — Alexander Pope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apathy Boast Empathy Fixed Frost Lazy Stoicism Virtue
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“The stoic says the universe Is leagued to try the sage's virtue. If evil smites you, look for worse, And if it hurts you,… — Morris Bishop Copy Share Image
“The Stoic makes no differentiation between a small act of kindness by a simple person and a great act of virtue from a learned… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life should otherwise… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“(On stoicism) "As a matter of fact, the experiment has already started. Yesterday at lunch I had a smaller piece of pecan pie than… — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we… — François Fénelon Copy Share Image
“In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone? In her… — Ouida Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
“Just because a person is silent doesn’t mean there’s no message.” — Frank Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
“If someone with a high level of authority were to ask me, "Suzy, how can we make people so incredibly stupid and apathetic, so… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very little consideration… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“The young woman had read a good many novels, and she had seen a good many films; this education by newspaper, serial and film… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
