A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMots clés individuality greatness virtue conformity zeitgeist flaws era
A noble deed is a dream before it is reality. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul, a beautiful world waits to be realized.
James AllenMots clés inspirational progress beauty patience virtue dream nobility potential noble
That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't deserve, precisely because he didn't deserve it--that would be true love and kindness and brotherhood. Else what's love for? If a man deserves a job, there's no virtue in giving it to him. Virtue is the giving of the undeserved.
Ayn RandMots clés morality virtue philosophical
Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.
AristotleMots clés ethics virtue aristotle the-good
No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very poor pottage.
Oscar WildeMots clés virtue
Ακόμη δε συνάντησα κανέναν που να αγαπούσε την αρετή περισσότερο από την ηδονή.
ΚομφούκιοςMots clés philosophy virtue pleasure confucius chinese-philosopher
It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
Amanda QuickMots clés virtue
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
Victor HugoMots clés virtue
Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!
Friedrich NietzscheI am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosMots clés virtue charity good-works vicomte-de-valmont
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