Niccolo Machiavelli Quote

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Thomas Jefferson

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

• God

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Sophocles

• Evil

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Saint Augustine

• Humanity

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

Thomas Kempis

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Mark Twain

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Demosthenes

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Henry David Thoreau

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Plutarch

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Camille Pissarro

• Children

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

Henrik Ibsen

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Children

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Johannes Sebastian Bach

• God
• Soul
• Music

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Theodore Roosevelt

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Anton Chekhov

• Success

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Power

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Power

A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

• Perfection