“Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 66
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“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession,”
Scientia enim rei bellicae dimicandi nutrit audaciam: nemo facere metuit quod se bene didicisse confidit.
De Re Militari (also Epitoma Rei Militaris), Book I, "The Selection and Training of New Levies"
Context: The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession, and he only wants an opportunity to execute what he is convinced he has been perfectly taught. (Book 1)
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
The Criticism of the Gotha Program (1875)
Variant: Variant translation: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLVII: On master and slave
“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments”
No. 163 (8 October 1751)
The Rambler (1750–1752)
Context: Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.