Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
F. Sionil Jose -
Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.
Robert Farrell Smith -
We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
Oscar Wilde -
Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault
Jimmy Buffett -
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
Eliza Haywood
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if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.
Naftali Bennett -
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle -
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
Aristotle -
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
Aristotle -
Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.
Aristotle -
In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.
Confucius
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Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
Confucius -
The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
Confucius -
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius -
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 -
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
Charlotte Bronte -
If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe
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Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins.
Rachel Caine -
This might sound strange, but I've never really been a person who has goals of any sort. I tend to just work in the moment, day-to-day, try to make things and make decisions that feel good, and it tends to guide me where I want to go in the long-term.
Ricky Reed -
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe