Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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 -
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 -
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
Galileo Galilei
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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 -
As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein -
If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
Maya Angelou -
Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
Kevin Spacey
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Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.
Vartan Gregorian -
People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.
Han Suyin -
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
Oswald Chambers -
To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
Alex Grey -
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
D. Todd Christofferson -
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
Saint Augustine
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The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.
Elizabeth Ann Seton -
I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me.
Muhammad Ali -
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
Honore de Balzac