#perishes

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#arise #cleverness #confusion #duty #faithful

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them? ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

#brave #cause #depart #die #fight

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. ↗

— Quintilian

#perfection #perishes #prematurely #soon #which

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#always #brought #came #condition #down

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#fires #hatred #hostility #perishes #petty

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. ↗

— Plautus

#conduct #death #delay #fangs #grinning

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#am #face #flesh #i #i am