Great Throughts Treasury

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Euripedes NULL

There is nothing more hostile to a city than a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway and this is no longer equal.

Law | Man | Nothing | Wisdom |

Felix Frankfurter

If facts are changing, law cannot be static.

Law | Wisdom |

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Imagination | Law | Nature | Truth | Wisdom |

Edwin Bradford Hall

Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength is not action; not a faculty of body, mind, or soul, whose law of improvement is not energy.

Action | Body | Energy | Improvement | Law | Mind | Soul | Strength | Wisdom |

Hubert Humphrey, fully Hubert Horatio Humphrey

There are not enough jails, nor enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Enough | Law | People | Wisdom |

Aldous Leonard Huxley

The law of diminishing returns holds good in almost every part of our human universe.

Good | Law | Universe | Wisdom |

Soozi Holbeche

I had a "near death experience" and remember thinking, "If only people knew what it was like to die, they wouldn't be afraid." I reached a point at which a voice began to ask me if I thought I'd completed what I'd come to do. was I going to leave my son, then age three, behind? There was no sense of threat or coercion. An absolute acceptance that whatever I did was all right, but pointing out that the moment of choice was now. The relief and release from the fear of dying changed my life. The reminder that "I am not my body" freed me to live my life in a different way. The understanding that no matter what is going on in our bodies, the essence of who we are is unaffected; this wisdom has enabled me to help other see their bodies in a different way. To see the body in illness not as an enemy, but as a faithful fried, programmed by; the soul to react in that exact way. To see illness as a confrontation in the physical of what one is reluctant to confront on the mental or emotional levels. In other words, a message, a communication, a time to listen and therefore a unique and powerful opportunity for transformation.

Absolute | Acceptance | Age | Body | Choice | Coercion | Death | Enemy | Experience | Fear | Life | Life | Opportunity | People | Right | Sense | Soul | Thinking | Thought | Time | Understanding | Unique | Wisdom | Words | Thought |

Richard Hooker

Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is thy bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things do her homage, the very least as feeling her care; and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.

Angels | Care | God | Harmony | Joy | Law | Men | Mother | Peace | Power | Wisdom | World |

George Horne

Prayer is the voice of faith.

Faith | Prayer | Wisdom |

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can be always pretended.

Ignorance | Law | Wisdom |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise, of due process of law or the Australian ballot.

Family | Free enterprise | Law | Man | Nations | Nothing | Wisdom |

Abbott Elliot Kittredge

I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.

Better | Good | Law | Obedience | Peace | Wisdom | Child |