
“Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.”
Variant translation: Success is man's god.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 59
No. 19
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.”
Variant translation: Success is man's god.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 59
'Modus Vivendi' (p.34)
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings (2009)
Diary (14 July 1889)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)
Context: Socialism may be all right when men are fit to be socialists. The way may be hard and slow, but until we take it we shall find that the so-called Socialist state degenerates and Fascism as rapidly as the pacifist with warm hearts to generate into militarists with fevered brows.
Marxism, like fascism and capitalism is materialism. The love of material goods above all others is as animal as of love of war. The love of justice above material goods must save us in the end it saved we may be.
Foreword http://www.bartleby.com/55/100.html
1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
Context: It seems to me that, for the nation as for the individual, what is most important is to insist on the vital need of combining certain sets of qualities, which separately are common enough, and, alas, useless enough. Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare. Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace.
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.