Endure Quote by Democritus

If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury; the measure…

— Francis Quarles

“Unfortunately, magnanimity is often seen as weakness by those on the receiving end. It's easy to be sensitive, tolerant, and multicultural--it's the default mode…

— Mark Steyn

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a…

— John Ruskin

“It is not even in extraordinary situations, where all eyes are upon us, where all our energy is aroused, and all our vigilance is…

— Albert Pike

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

— Charles G. Dawes

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

— Jacques Ellul

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

— Samuel Johnson

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It is a wondrous human characteristic to be able to slip into and out of idiocy many times a day without noticing the change…

— Scott Adams

How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in…

— William Faulkner

All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider…

— Maria Montessori

In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil…

— William Wordsworth