Adversity Quote by Lactantius Download Open image “Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.” — Lactantius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity Age Memory Old age Prosperity Youth
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
“Middle-aged memory [is] an instrument of torture: you reach for the fruit of memory and it vanishes, to appear when you no longer want… — Castle Freeman Jr Copy Share Image
It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup." — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life. — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things... — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few,… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. — Lactantius Copy Share Image
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things. — Lactantius Copy Share Image
Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection. — Lactantius Copy Share Image
There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
“I am inclined to think that the corrupting influence of the stage is even worse [than that of the arena]. The subjects of comedies… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength,… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
