Alas Quote by Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Download Open image “Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!” — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alas Believe Chance I believe I believe in Shadow Slave Thee Vain Virtue
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth,… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands. — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge.… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him. — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
![“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]” quote by Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c20/marcus-junius-brutus-the-young_affair_what-can-be-happier-than-for-a-man-consc_735053.jpg)
