Mortals Quotes
310 Mortals quotes by 200 unique authors
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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
— Horace
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
— Heraclitus
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There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
— Xenophanes
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Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.
— Daniel Kahneman
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I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.
— Thierry Mugler
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Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.
— Gordon W. Allport
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Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say…
— Rick Perlstein
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There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the…
— Buddha
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In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love…
— Sarah MacLean
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Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space…
— Lucretius
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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
— Edward Young
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even…
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible…
— Ellis Peters
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We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us…
— Nick Clooney
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
— Bodhidharma
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Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose…
— Marguerite Gardiner
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There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you…
— Sophocles
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Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
— Hesiod
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