I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. – George Washington
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. – Francois…
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. – Fran Lebowitz
The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. – Eleanor…
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. – Daniel Webster
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the…
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is.…
Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is.
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. – C.S. Lewis
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. – C.S. Lewis
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down…
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. – C.S. Lewis
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
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