“When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness.” DifferentStatesShowsFoundVirtueCircumstancesWasteNobleResistanceNakedChairsWildernessRomeSenatorsPurpleRobesObstinateTranquillityDestituteSullenSupplicationDupesPerishingMagnanimous Book:History, Tales, and Sketches Source: History, Tales, and Sketches
“Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.” BelieveWellsBookRaceMankindCircumstancesCreaturesCapableNobleProof Book:A Book for a Corner Source: A Book for a Corner
“No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.” MenPersonsOrderBornChanceAbilityDependsCircumstancesNobleMeritDistinctionDispositionPublic ServiceParadesAncestryNotoriousAmiableInsolencePedigree Author:Seneca the Younger
“Others make a point of trying to attain the precision and poise they see in those who have the ability to choose from a great number of horses those with [...] qualities found in only a very small number of horses. This leads to a circumstance in which these imitators of such studied poise mortify the spirit of a noble horse, and remove from it all of the goodness of temperament Nature has given it.” TryingSpiritFoundGivenAbilityNumbersQualityCircumstancesGoodnessHorseNobleRemoveTemperamentPrecisionPoiseSmall NumbersImitatorAbility To Choose Author:Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere
“Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.” PurposeCircumstancesConstitutionNobleTyrannyJealousSuperstitionsObjections Author:Adam Weishaupt
“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.” MenMindMeanUseStrongCausesJusticeLearningProgressConditionsPossibilityCircumstancesNobleAidsCeaseFactorsKicksRapidsBe A ManA Man Thinketh Book:As a Man Thinketh Source: As a Man Thinketh