The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
Every human being who has ever lived has the same potential in them for good and evil. Mortal or sorcerer, it doesn't matter. Power has a way of bringing out the worst in people. Mevolent. Serpine. Hitler. Lord Vile. Darquesse. We're all the same. " "You just put me on a list with Hitler. " "You're going to start sulking again, aren't you?
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.
They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.
Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same twilight, we felt the same pull of the earth beneath our feet. We drank together and broke bread together. We might have made love together, if you had only allowed such a thing. But that’s all changed. You have your youth, yes, and all the dizzying wonder that accompanies the miracle. But I still see death when I look at you. I know now I cannot be your companion, and you cannot be mine
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent
Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is given mortal eyes to see. When Christians see Christ empowering the weak, scorning the powerful, healing the wounded, and judging their tormentors, we are seeing transparently the power of God at work.
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.
A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life.
You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!
All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.