Choices Quote by Seneca the Younger

“Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to this point,…

— Pope Gregory I

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime…

— Blaise Pascal

“He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not against him but FOR…

— Karl Barth

“No one, however strong he may feel his obligations, will ever be man enough to fulfill them except that he be a Christian-that is,one…

— George MacDonald

“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who…

— George Washington

“Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.”

— Anne Brontë

“He who seeks and struggles shall find. Struggles bring the most unlikely things within reach. When a man makes up his mind to do…

— John Wortabet

He whose needs are the least will always be the nearest to God.

— Vikrant Parsai

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast…

— Aristotle

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him…

— Francis Bacon