Famous quotes containing the words wax and/or resist:
“Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)
“If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)