Their Substance Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained… — Sun Tzu
Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine… — Samuel Adams
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. — Thomas Jefferson
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally… — Giambattista Vico
Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things… — Dion Fortune
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to… — Polybius
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall in… — Ramona Koval
For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier… — Abraham Lincoln
It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance. — Alexander McQueen
No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing… — Carrie P Snow
Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other… — Marcus Aurelius
Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And… — George Crabbe
For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be â€”… — Margaret Atwood
Men shall have the preeminence above women, because of those advantages wherein God hath caused the one of them to excel the other, and for… — Quran
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what… — Jonathan Miller

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