Quote by John Calvin Download Open image ““The ancient proverb says, "Satiety produces disgust,”” — John Calvin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet to excessive… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Why should one live? All is vain! To live - that is to thresh straw; to live - that is to burn oneself and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When evening comes, I return to my home, and I go into my study; and on the thresh-hold, I take off my everyday clothes,… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“ I once took pleasure some place in seeing men, through piety, take a vow of ignorance, as of chastity, poverty, penitence. It is… — Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“What was it that led the Cynics to repudiate pleasure in any form, if it was not the fact that pain is, in a… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
