A Quote by Epictetus

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

Epictetus

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Epictetus
Greek - Philosopher
50 - 138

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

Leonardo da Vinci

And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion.

Dylan Thomas

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Samuel Butler

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

John Milton

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Jeremy Taylor

The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not wear them like fancy dress.

Katherine Paterson

Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.

Aeschylus

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

Wilfred Bion

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Thomas Fuller

Wealth is the sinews of success.

Bion of Borysthenes

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

George Farquhar

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Buddha

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