It is only when a man is alone that he is really free. Schopenhauer.
It is only when it is bent that the bow shows its strength. Grillparzer.
It is only with renunciation that life, strictly 30 speaking, can be said to begin. Goethe.
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore. Bovee.
It is petty expenses that empty the purse. It. Pr.
It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none. Marcus Antoninus.
It is possible to sin against charity, when we do not sin against truth. Pr.
It is precisely in accepting death as the end 35 of all and in laying down, on that sorrowful condition, his life for his friends, that the hero and patriot of all time has become the glory and safety of his country. Ruskin.
It is profound ignorance that inspires a degenerate tone. La Bruyère.
It is proof of a high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way. Emerson.