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Man Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will…
- Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he…
- You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.
- The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not…
- For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between…
- He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or…
- If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our…
- No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned…
- When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely…
- 'The long-suffering man abounds in understanding' (Prov. 14:29), because he endures everything to the end and, while awaiting that end, patiently bears his distress. The…
- By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the…
- The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the…
- ...the Lord said as He drew near His passion, 'Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is…
- If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and the sons of…
- Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in…
- The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
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- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
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