If the enemy's sons lived to empty pockets, then they start a panic among the people in order to profit from human good during the turbulent times.
Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects.
I undertook to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world, and to accustom myself to believe that nothing is entirely in our power except our own thoughts.
—René Descartes
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.
Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.
With these means, man can attain perfection.
—Plato
In whatever class or order of society Christianity prevails, she sets herself to rectify the particular faults, or, if we would speak more distinctly, to counteract the particular mode of selfishness, to which that class is liable.
—William Wilberforce
Ascending on high, He took captivity captive, gave gifts to men, and was exalted above all heavens, in order that He should fulfill all things (Eph. 4:8–10).
—Herman Bavinck
On our Earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.
We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love.
I want suffering in order to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
In order to live a good life you have to place truth above everything else, so that you don’t fear speaking the truth even if the truth harms you as you speak.
—Leo Tolstoy
During life all has gone well with me, so far as God has ordered matters, and all the evil has been the result of my own follies.
—William Wilberforce
Working on freeing your soul from your body in order to make it more spiritual and filled with love each and every day is the only genuine labor.
—Leo Tolstoy
“If God is to write the law upon the heart, the heart must be prepared, and in order to being prepared, it must be entirely renewed by a miracle of mercy, such as can only be wrought by that omnipotent hand which made both heaven and earth.”
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
—Voltaire
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
—Voltaire
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
—Henry Ford
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
—Franz Kafka
In order to be happy, you must always think of others, especially when you’re speaking to someone.
—Leo Tolstoy
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. – C.S. Lewis
Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength.
—Sun Tzu
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
—Pablo Picasso
My unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
—Leo Tolstoy
I should do wrong to sacrifice an opportunity of usefulness which is within my reach, in order to qualify myself for a station I am not likely ever to fill.
—William Wilberforce
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
—Immanuel Kant
Instead of marrying in order to increase the number of children it would be far simpler to support the millions of children now dying everywhere.
—Leo Tolstoy
The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.
—Thomas Aquinas
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.
—Sun Tzu
When speaking of divine perfection, we signify that God is just and true and loving, the author of order, not disorder, of good, not evil.
We signify that he is justice, that he is truth, that he is love, that he is order, that he is the very progress of.
—Plato
In order to write about life first you must live it.
—Ernest Hemingway
Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another
—Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
—Arthur Schopenhauer