Diminish Quote by Blaise Pascal Download Open image “To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.” — Blaise Pascal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diminish Funny Inspirational Kings Love
That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and its ordering… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
... I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on… — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but… — Randy Moss Copy Share Image
I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more… — Aaron Rodgers Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia.… — Hermann E. Ott Copy Share Image
The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed. — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
