We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size. Great short quote and quotation by: […]
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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. Great short quote and quotation by: Alex Comfort ,
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Great short quote and quotation by: Seneca , Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – […]
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What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married. Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry David Thoreau , US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Paine , US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809)
Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice… Great short quote and quotation by: Marquis de Sade, Justine ,
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. Great short quote and quotation by: David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair , US biologist, educator, & ichthyologist (1851 – 1931)
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice. Great short quote and quotation by: Ursula Le Guin ,