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One Quotes by Saint Basil
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death,…
- We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.
- I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that…
- When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe…
- Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
- The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked;…
- Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the…
- If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would…
- What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of…
- The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything…
- To Whom does our God say, 'in our image' (Gen. 1:26), to whom if it is not to Him who is 'the brightness of His…
- The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts...
- Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time…
- God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that,…
- Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the…
- No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated…
- We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get…
- If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor,…
- When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle