Human beings Quote by Lactantius Download Open image “Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.” — Lactantius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human beings Humans Humble Humility Matter Modesty Nature
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.' — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Modesty is virtue which enhances charm of ones personality & get up. — DrAnil Kr Sinha 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
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
