Selected quotes - page 2

God does not allow a trial unless something good comes out of it... God allows everything for our good. (Paisios of Mount Athos)
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. View quote
Winston Churchill
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Experience is the teacher of all things. View quote
Julius Caesar
And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said. View quote
Voltaire
Friends are like shoes. You may have many, but you only walk with the ones that feel comfortable. View quote
When you die people cry and beg for you to come back, but sometimes when you're here, they don't even show they care about you. View quote
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. View quote
George Herbert
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Eat to live, not live to eat. (Socrates)
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. View quote
Anton Chekhov
All cruelty springs from weakness. View quote
Seneca
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. View quote
Plato
Reading is the best teaching. View quote
Aleksandr Pushkin
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice. View quote
Aristotle
A clear conscience fears neither lies, nor rumors, nor gossip. View quote
Ovid
Better bread with salt in peace and without sorrow than many expensive dishes in grief and suffering. View quote
John Chrysostom
Poverty consists not in the decrease in one's possessions, but in the increase in one's greed. View quote
Plato
A person cannot choose the time in which he is born or lives; it is not up to him, who his parents are, or the nation he will be born into, but what he is responsible for is how he will act in that given time: will he be human or inhuman. View quote
Pavle (Serbian)
- How can you believe in God? Have you seen your God? - I haven't actually seen God. But I have performed many brain surgeries, and when I opened the skull, I never saw a mind in there either. And I never found a conscience there either. (Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky))
Hell can't be made attractive, so the devil makes attractive the road that leads there. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
Everyone shouts – you must learn to forgive. But no one even thinks that you must learn not to offend and not to cause pain! View quote
Take care of yourselves for the sake of your children! No one else will love them the way you do... View quote
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. View quote
Mark Twain