Top 21 Numa Quotes

#1. History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

#2. I made a fortune getting out too soon.

J. P. Morgan

#3. One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Mark Batterson

#4. History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

#5. Accept that things happen. It may not be for a reason, and you may have no control over it, but the first step to getting through it is accepting what it is.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

Livy

#7. Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Denis Diderot

#8. Those who ask 'What was God doing before he made heaven and earth?' are still steeped in error which they should have discarded.

Augustine Of Hippo

#9. Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Marquis De Sade

#10. History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

#11. There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a justified war but there is a war of necessity and we have to fight it if we want to assure our way of life even if it's the wrong one.

Boris Zubry

#12. I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

Roger Maris

#13. The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

Laura Huxley

#15. I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy ... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody ... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics ... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form ... I'm sure of it.

Paul Mooney

#16. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

#17. History is and should be a science.

Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

#18. Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de

Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

#19. You don't know what you want Livvie, and what you think you want, you've been brain-washed into wanting

C.J. Roberts

#20. Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won't reach that by considerations of my mind; on the contrary they will lead to a certain despair of the inner person. Not what he thinks engages the artist, but what he feels.

Bram Van Velde

#21. To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.

Jeanne Moreau

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