“It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death.”
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXIV: On despising death
“The will for the deed.”
Act III.
The Rival Fools (1709)
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“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds …”
George Eliot book Adam Bede
Source: Adam Bede (1859)
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John Fletcher (1579–1625) English Jacobean playwright
The Lover's Progress (licensed 6 December 1623; revised 1634; published 1647), Act iii. Sc. 4. Compare: "Deeds, not words", Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part i, canto i, line 867.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Worte sind Taten.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
“To what extent you can, avoid bad deeds, even if everybody takes you as the agent of bad deeds.”
Ali Zayn al-Abidin (659–713) Great-grandson of the Prophet Muhammad
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 161.
Religious wisdom
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
τί λοιπὸν ἢ ἀπολαύειν τοῦ ζῆν συνάπτοντα ἄλλο ἐπ ἄλλῳ ἀγαθόν, ὥστε μηδὲ τὸ βραχύτατον διάστημα ἀπολείπειν;
XII, 29
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XII
“The result justifies the deed.”
Exitus acta probat.
Variant translation: The ends justify the means.
II, 85
Heroides (The Heroines)