A Quote by Stanislaw I Leszczynski
To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.
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As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing.
The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.
He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.
Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.
I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.
They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die!
Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!
The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.
The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and necessary to life here below, are vain and of no effect as to what concerns the life eternal.
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go
Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.
The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.
I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.
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