Attachment Quote by John Climacus

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice…

— Confucius

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of…

— Horace

He who dies for virtue does not perish.

— Plautus

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

— Sathya Sai Baba

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

— Theodore Parker

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“Oh, there are plenty of people," the Duc used to observe, "who never misbehave save when passion spurs them to ill; later, the fire…

— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches…

— Robert Peel

“Celibacy,fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude and the whole train of monkish virtues...Stupify the understanding and harden the heart, obscure the fancy and…

— David Hume

A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of…

— John Owen

He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not…

— John Owen