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A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death. Nikos Kazantzakis
Death Day Soul Eyes Conflict Men Long Duty Weak Out Responsible Spirit Day And Night Between Until Supreme Contest Becomes Does Itself Very May Ends Endurance Heavy Breaks Flesh Who Keep Among Grows Resist Last Night
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight. Nikos Kazantzakis
Life Death Fight Trouble Alive Only Look Your Belt
In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through. Nikos Kazantzakis
God Man Christ Sacrifice Summit Cross Struggles Through Passed Passes Mount Order Stages Which Who
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle. Nikos Kazantzakis
Life Dreams Me Struggle Men My Life Few Living Throughout Dead Greatest Been Very Few Men Helped Travels
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty. Nikos Kazantzakis
Soul Nothing Perceptions Divine Clearly Still Human Heavy Clumsy Held Mud Flesh Coarse Certainty Human Soul
The present will not long endure. Pindar
Will Long Endure Present
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. Plato
Time Man Old Only Also Drunkard Becomes Child Old Man Then Second
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. Plato
Knowledge Evil Aim Virtuous Becomes
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. Plato
Benefit Wrongly Said Author Conferred May Often Injure
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. Plato
Life Great You Conflict Every Other Earthly Take Part Combat Also Greater Than Which
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. Plato
Too Much Speed Too Penalty Haste Which Little Much Suffer
People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer. Platon
Best Natural People Photographer The Hardest Thing Hardest Hardest Thing Thing
I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal. Platon
Work Death Best Me People Kiss Big Become Think Photographer Best Work Threatened No-One Knew Underdog Well Well Known Known Because Deal Always Big Deal Were Did Wanted Who Portrait
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. Plutarch
Great Aim Those Must Also Greatly Who Deeds Suffer
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. Plutarch
Music Health Medicine Harmony Must Examine Investigate Discord Disease Produce Create
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. Pythagoras
Light Cloud All Things Shadow Above Thyself Reverence Star Things
A thought is an idea in transit. Pythagoras
Thought Idea Transit
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.' Saint Basil
Journey You Speak Fear Word Long Despise Our Unable Out More Unreasonable Long Journey Through Absolutely Because Fish Command Perpetuation Than Listen May Reason Who Actions Lest Even Creator Species Utter Resisting Set
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall. Saint Basil
Art God Time Gift Paradise Fall Before Creation Living Relief Would Immune Case Delights Also Were Labor Disease Just Require Toil Farmer Medical Need
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant. Saint Basil
Light Fall Repentance Others Neglect Virtues Slight Faults Strive Rather Remain Attain Most Make Although Greater Repair Quick Commit May Grievous Lesser Large Many Even Large Number Number
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed. Saint Basil
Woman Nice Guilty Destroys Unborn Unborn Child Purposely Child Being Formed Us Who Her
Learn to obey before you command. Solon
You Obey Before Learn Command
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. Sophocles
Kindness Better Will Possession Knows Accept How Friend Than Any Show Who
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness. Sophocles
Kindness Ever
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. Sophocles
Nature Man Own Does Leaves His Disgust Unfit
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. Sophocles
Wisdom Words Goes Fewest Often Much
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