Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 25

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.
Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.
 Patricia Wentworth
There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.
 Michelle Branch
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.
 Thomas Malthus
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
 Walter Savage Landor
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
 Patrick Ness
This [the intelligent design movement] isn\'t really, and never has been, a debate about science, it\'s about religion and philosophy.
This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.
 Phillip E. Johnson