In contemplation as in action, we must distinguish between what may be attained and what is unattainable.…
In contemplation as in action, we must distinguish between what may be attained and what is unattainable. Without this…
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In contemplation as in action, we must distinguish between what may be attained and what is unattainable. Without this…
You cannot play the flute by blowing alone: you must use your fingers.
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half-, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the …
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
It is not enough to know, we must also apply; it is not enough to will, we must also do.
Error is continually repeating itself in action, and we must unweariedly repeat the truth in word.
Difficulties increase the nearer we come to our aim.
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.