Edmund Morris Quotes
Actually Roosevelt was identifying with Euripides—like himself, an upper-class celebrant of middle-class virtues.
Edmund Morris
Quotes to Explore
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
Philip James Bailey
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Virtues cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.
Aristotle
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes
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Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
Miguel de Cervantes
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face.
Walter Breuning
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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.
Ernest Hemingway
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That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.
John Zorn
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I call God ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office) . It's much more satisfying to call it that. A lot of people accept this and they don't know that they're just talking about God. I finally found a God that was big enough. As the astronomer said to the Minister, My God's astronomical. The Minister said, How can you relate to something so big? The astronomer said, Well, that isn't the problem, your God's too small!
John Lilly
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Actually Roosevelt was identifying with Euripides—like himself, an upper-class celebrant of middle-class virtues.
Edmund Morris
