There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
~
Michel de Montaigne
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
~
Robert S. Lynd
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
~
Bodie Thoene
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
~ Oscar Wilde
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
~
Ann Landers
Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
~
Suzanne Necker
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
~
Blaise Pascal
There is a great deal of self--will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.
~
Frederick W. Faber
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
~
Georges Courteline
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
~
Martin Luther
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are
simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
~
Barry Lopez
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
~
Somerset Maugham
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or
unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house--tops.
~ Oscar Wilde
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men;
but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.
~
William Lloyd Garrison
In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
~
Mary Renault
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
~
Henry David Thoreau
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to
~ Mark Twain
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
~
Henry David Thoreau
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
~
Harriet Woods
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
~
Laurence Olivier
Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.
~
Michael Iapoce
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
~
H. Jackson Browne
American poet, philosopher, lecturer, and essayist of 19th century America.
An isolated and self-sufficient individual deeply involved in study of his social relationships, anti-slavery activity and
focus on his mature ethical thought.
His essays can be appreciated for their imaginative, paradoxical, accumulative and analogical rhetoric. This great man had a
strong influence on American poetry, his connections with the later philosophical movement of pragmatism, and his contributions
to the theory of democracy are remembered.
(1803-1882)
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
~ Voltaire
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
~ Dante Alighieri
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~ Abraham LincolnMore Proverbs
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