Plutarch Quotes
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.Plutarch
Quotes to Explore
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei -
I seek solutions, not battles.
Kate Brown -
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong -
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler -
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
Edmund Husserl
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What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
Abu Bakar Bashir -
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo -
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza -
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde -
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw -
Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
Friedrich Schiller
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The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.
Lorde -
Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.
Ben Harper -
The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.
Yehuda Amichai -
On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.
Barbara Mikulski -
When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
Alex Grey -
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
D. Todd Christofferson
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Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
Confucius -
The Patent and Trademark Office was correct in issuing the patent.
J. M. Roberts -
In a situation where you don't think any of your roommates are home and you locked the door before you left, the first thing you should do before even putting the key in the door is turn the knob, ... If it turns, you should already be thinking that something might be wrong.
Arthur Mitchell -
I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.
Bill Barich -
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.
Plutarch