Quotes About Magnanimity

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them? that it was a vain endeavor?

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

to be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independences, magnanimity, and trust. it is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically but practically. the success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. The

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.... To be a philosopher is not mere to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

For all I know,he may be a prince in disguise; he rather looks like one, by the way- like a prince who has abdicated in a fit of magnanimity, and has been in a state of disgust ever since.

Manifest kindness to embrace greatness.

In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell.

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

La vanidad no es algo grande y la grandeza no puede por tanto ser vanidosa .

They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the "God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God." They prefer to think in terms of "God liking them." That's the God they've conjured for themselves.

magnanimousness.

I rejoice that I could once think better of the world's improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice, in a lifetime; or, if so, the rarer and higher is the nature that can magnanimously persist in error.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Por su hombría está obligado a ser sano de cuerpo, prudente, lleno de entereza, honrado, orgulloso de sí mismo, intrépido, digno de sus antepasados y de su historia, paciente en la adversidad, intolerante con la debilidad de carácter, ascético, frugal y valeroso. Debe ser magnánimo y celoso de su honor, porque el hombre sin honor es lo más bajo que hay y se debe temer más al cobarde que al perverso.

Adev?rata nobleÈ›e a omului, eroismul s?u cel mai mare const? în a È™ti s? tr?iasc? pân? atunci când toate temeiurile vieÈ›ii sunt distruse în el, pân? atunci când v?lurile È™i cârjele care fac posibil? viaÈ›a tuturor au fost aruncate la o parte. Prin aceast? nobleÈ›e, prin aceast? m?reÈ›ie, prin acest ultim È™i disperat curaj, scap în acelaÈ™i timp de moarte È™i de mediocritate.

The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous.

The universe does not favor the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, and the virtuous. All the great Teachers of the ages have declared this in varying forms, and to prove and know it a man has but to persist in making himself more and more virtuous by lifting up his thoughts.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

His was one of those petty and mean natures, towards which it is dangerous to practice magnanimity; to his paltry spirit it appeared certainly a dictate of prudence to supplant at the first opportunity his reluctantly acknowledged rival, and his mean soul thirsted after a possibility of retaliating on Caesar for the humiliation which he had suffered through Caesar's indulgence.

sublimemque feres ad sidera caeli magnanimum Aenean vv. 258, libro I