Tags: dreams virtue wicked honor
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.
Edmund BurkeTags: truth liberty freedom virtue
Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made worth heaven!
Ben JonsonTags: virtue
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
Ben JonsonTags: virtue
das man die wahre Natur der Sinne nie verstanden hatte und dass sie wild und tierisch geblieben waren, nur weil die Welt versucht hatte, sie durch Aushungern zu bändigen und durch schmerzhaften Verzicht abzutöten, statt danach zu trachten, sie zu Elementen einer neuen Geistigkeit zu verwandeln, deren bezeichnendes Merkmal ein empfindsamer Sinn für die Schönheit sein sollte.
Oscar WildeNichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.
Oscar WildeAlthough the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.
Susan GriffinTags: women virtue courtesans
Jene Entsagungen, die die Menschen alberner Weise Tugenden nennen
Oscar WildeTags: virtue
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
Mary WollstonecraftTags: empowerment gender women morality freedom virtue feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy independence double-standards social-norms
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
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