Every step of life shows how much caution is required. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. [ Thoreau ]
The first and last thing which is required of genius is the love of truth. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber. [ Goldsmith ]
To be a good poet and painter genius is required, and this cannot be communicated. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion. [ John Sterling ]
A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need. [ Plutarch ]
That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessaries are not wanting. [ Plutarch ]
Thou art not required to search into the nature of God, but into the nature of the beings which he has created. [ Rückert ]
Where much is given, much shall be required. There are never privileges to enjoy without corresponding duties to fulfil in return. [ Phiiups Brooks ]
I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them. [ Montaigne ]
That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do. [ John Ruskin ]
A good deal depends upon luck as well as care, and sometimes a writer must wait, or even leave off and return to work again, before he can hit upon the turn of words required. [ Richard D. Blackmore, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
To the understanding of anything, two conditions are equally required - intelligibility in the thing itself being no whit more indispensable than intelligence in the examiner of it. [ Carlyle ]
It is too generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful what they owe to God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often enough and regularly enough. [ Bishop Whately ]
If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of the two does not make one reasonable being. [ Balzac ]
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete. [ Goethe ]
Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain. [ Johnson ]
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterised by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naïveté. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]