Accomplished Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

— Jorge Luis Borges

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers…

— Samuel Johnson

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

“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards…

— Ephrem the Syrian

“For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the…

— Eric Hoffer

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

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Perhaps you face something that is tempting you to take a more leisurely path through life, when an invitation to get up and climb…

— Paul Manwaring

It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws',…

— Seneca the Younger

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance…

— CS Lewis

“The man who no longer expects miraculous changes either from a revolution or from an economic plan is not obliged to resign himself to…

— Raymond Aron