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Virtue in this world should be malleable.


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LYTTON STRACHEY We've been surprised to find out how malleable the brain is.
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GARY BAUER This is what the whole world should be like,
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CARL SAGAN In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue
MUNIA KHAN Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction
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CHARLES DUHIGG Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
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EDMUND HUSSERL Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which mon...
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JANNY WURTS A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should b...
JOHN TYLER New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket...
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HERMAN MELVILLE I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.
GIULIO ANDREOTTI The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing
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HERMAN GORTER I'm very schizophrenic and malleable as a human being.
MAX MINGHELLA No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can...
KARL BARTH No one can be saved--in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved--in virtue of what God can d...
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where y...
ALICE WATERS People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this ...
DENIS DIDEROT Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion w...
ROBERT HALL I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great resp...
BRIAN KITELEY To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good l...
BUDDHA Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love...
DOREEN VIRTUE Why now? Why didn't we know this (then)? What happened to the discernment process?
DAVID VIRTUE We've grown up watching them and looking up to them as role models.
TESSA VIRTUE He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne sa...
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(1) The silence of Prometheus.
(2) The Elizabethans.
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PLATO Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not.
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ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not miracles
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JOHANN ARNDT Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice
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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
MOLIERE I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
MOLIERE It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
MOLIERE To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed,...
MOLIERE If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIERE A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues ...
MOLIERE No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion...
MOLIERE All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political b...
MOLIERE People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIERE A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly beha...
MOLIERE No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and le...
MOLIERE There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
MOLIERE Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the though...
MOLIERE Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly beha...
MOLIERE We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.
MOLIERE Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then f...
MOLIERE Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to h...
MOLIERE Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety
MOLIERE Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world ...
MOLIERE One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE Cover that bosom. I must not see it. Souls are wounded by such things, and they arouse wicked though...
MOLIERE As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt...
MOLIERE Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done s...
MOLIERE Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
MOLIERE There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in...
MOLIERE We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues ...
MOLIERE Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
MOLIERE Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyon...
MOLIERE Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it
MOLIERE The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
MOLIERE People can be induced to swallow anything, provide it is sufficiently seasoned with praise
MOLIERE Pure reason avoids extremes, and requires one to be wise in moderation.
MOLIERE People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners.
MOLIERE Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE Ah that I- You would have it so, you would have it so; George Dandin, you would have it so! This sui...
MOLIERE Birth is nothing where virtue is not
MOLIERE Ah! Valere, all men say the same thing to women; all are alike in their words; their actions only sh...
MOLIERE What the devil did he want in that galley?
MOLIERE You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known.
MOLIERE All the power is with the sex that wears the beard
MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots.
MOLIERE It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.
MOLIERE The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.
MOLIERE Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married
MOLIERE I want to be understood; to be quite frank, the friend of the human race is not in the least my role...
MOLIERE Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain
MOLIERE I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others
MOLIERE How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
MOLIERE Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
MOLIERE It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble
MOLIERE Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERE Assassination's the fastest way.
MOLIERE My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE I am addressing myself - I am addressing myself to my cap.
MOLIERE I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool
MOLIERE Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE Of course heaven forbids certain pleasures, but one finds means of compromise.
MOLIERE Man is, I confess, a wicked creature.
MOLIERE There's nothing like tobacco; it is the passion of all decent men-a man who lives without tobacco do...
MOLIERE Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE Things only have the value that we give them
MOLIERE Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love sho...
MOLIERE According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
MOLIERE It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
MOLIERE To live without loving is not really to live
MOLIERE It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others
MOLIERE It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives witho...
MOLIERE Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
MOLIERE A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon Est ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleur...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding suc...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la cho...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. [Fr., La parfaite ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE