We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..
Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.
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Thiruvalluvar
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
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Mary MacLane
I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?
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Robert A. Heinlein
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
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John Locke
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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George Washington
More Quotes By Euripides
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange...
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
