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 -
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
Saint Augustine -
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 -
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 -
Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.
Zac Posen -
I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
Henry Ward Beecher -
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 -
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.
Aristotle
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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 -
One is punished best for one's virtues.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.
Confucius -
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
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The death penalty is reserved for people who do not.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
Your greatness is measured by your kindness.
William J. H. Boetcker -
The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.
Umberto Boccioni -
A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe