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 Thornton Wilder
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies, ' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude
Everybody has a right to their own troubles.
It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the...
