Causes Quote by Horace

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant…

— Horace

“One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is that no man should be judge in…

— Edmund Burke

A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no…

— Joseph Addison

...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...

— Alexander Hamilton

He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must…

— David Hume

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition…

— Samuel Johnson

“9But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless. + 10Reject a divisive man after the…

— Tyndale

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens,…

— Horace

“In fact, if a man is forced to resort to violence to achieve his ends, whether in his own household, his estates, or his…

— Sarah Woodbury

This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on…

— Leonard Bernstein

“It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him from everything…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau