The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.
We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.
The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.
He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.
Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.
Theres one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law thats evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.
Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite
Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.
As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.
That's one of the things about love. It doesn't recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.
