
“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
Book I, Ch. 26
Attributed
Variant: The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
“Always pray for wisdom above all other things, it's like magnate”
Source: https://www.scribd.com/document/531451370/Quotes-of-Famous-People Scribd document, famous people quotes, Cornelius Keagon
“The moon, full orbed, forsakes her watery cave,
And lifts her lovely head above the wave…”
Da Lua os claros raios rutilavam...
Stanza 58 line 1 (as translated by William Julius Mickle). Compare:
As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night,
Over heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light...
Homer, The Iliad, VIII. 551–555 (tr. Alexander Pope)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I
“The aim of man is beyond the temporal — in the serene region of the everlasting Present.”
Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Context: The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal — in the serene region of the everlasting Present.
No. 381 (17 May 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 6
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book IX, Chapter I, Sec. 5