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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by
it, you have reason to rejoice.
[Lat., read more
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by
it, you have reason to rejoice.
[Lat., Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod
gaudias.]
He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, read more
He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, yet disown,
For reasons to himself best known.
All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.
All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what read more
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off,
but the will of even a read more
The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off,
but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
A willing heart adds feather to the heel
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
A willing heart adds feather to the heel
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
