A man must make his choice not only between virtue and vice, but between different virtues.
A man must make his choice not only between virtue and vice, but between different virtues.
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savours less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
Vice is man's nature virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories