Agesilaus II Quotes

Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

Agesilaus II

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• Injustice
• Valor

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• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • You
  • Me
  • Smile

• Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Seriously

• I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Growing

• Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Help
  • Easy

• In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

  

  David Hume
  • Small
  • Sea
  • Ambition

• I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!

  

  Byung Hun
  • Lost
  • Looks
  • Weight

• When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Truth
  • Together
  • Relative

• Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Peace

• I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Father
  • College
  • Firsts

• It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.

  

  John C. Danforth
  • Trying
  • Purpose
  • Judgment

• Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Mind
  • Children

• There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heart
  • Moments
  • Longing

• The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

  

  John Wilbanks
  • Broken
  • Opposites

• I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Power
  • Man
  • Messing

• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Women
  • True
  • Dream

• In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • World
  • War
  • Revolution

• Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

  

  Agesilaus II
  • Virtue
  • Injustice
  • Valor