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

• 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

• Back when the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology were one great intellectual hodgepodge, proving the existence of God was a relatively commonplace exercise. To the modern mind, however, science and religion talk past each other.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Existence Of God

• He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.

  

  Confucius
  • Search
  • Arms
  • Coarse

• When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Truth
  • Chords
  • Vague Ideas

• No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Accept
  • Injustice
  • Favours

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

  

  Agesilaus II
  • Virtue
  • Injustice
  • Valor