Their Ruin Quotes
- The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong… — Robert Southwell
- O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of… — William Shakespeare
- We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame them… — Thomas S. Monson
- He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it. — Leopold von Ranke
- Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless. — Leopold von Ranke
- The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same. — John Thorn
- Behold Vo Mimbre," Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, "queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed again. Upon this… — David Eddings
- It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great… — Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
- Success tempts many to their ruin. — Phaedrus
- As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the… — Niccolo Machiavelli