Elevation Quote by Juvenal Download Open image “Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.” — Juvenal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elevation Estates Fortune Highest Jokes Mean Men Raises Way Wealth
The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most. — Ovid Copy Share Image
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share
Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
“Everyone cannot elevate or even revelate at the same time and/or season; an appointment to elevation can result from being specially chosen...like fruit that is ready, ripe and refined for its pleasurable taste. Even scriptural wisdom documents that "Many are called, few are chosen." Those chosen 'few' may deeply sense that at the core function of elevation is an acension… — Tracey Bond Copy Share
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration.” — Petra Remes Copy Share Image
Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
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