Individual Quote by Isidore of Seville Download Open image “War with vices, but peace with individuals.” — Isidore of Seville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Individual Peace Seville Vices War
Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.” — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with… — Horace Copy Share Image
“What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.” — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady. — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
“If a man wants to be always in God’s company, he must pray regularly and read spiritual books regularly. When we pray, we talk… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading. — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music;… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what we have… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
Teaching unsupported by grace may enter our ears, but it never reaches the heart. When God's grace does touch our innermost minds to bring… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in… — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
![“[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were old enough, they were wise enough, and they knew their history and this is why they came out in support of us, because they knew that we had our finger…” quote by John Carlos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13b/john-carlos-16923_bills_sport-officials-blocked-their-support-of_4987.jpg)
