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Things Quotes by Saint John Chrysostom
- There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough…
- For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things, and most of…
- Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a…
- Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day.…
- Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will…
- Do not the angels differs from us in this respect, that they do not want so many things as we do? Therefore the less we…
- I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about such things, and inquire from the Holy Scriptures all these…
- Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild,…
- From the creation learn to admire thy Lord! And if any of the things thou see exceed thy comprehension, and thou are not able to…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle