Wisdom Quotes · Page 25
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“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
“Discretion is a perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.”
“Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.”
“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and some in prosperity.”
“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.”
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.”
“On reason build resolve, that column of true majesty in man.”
“Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.”
“Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.”
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
“Either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or if at all, after death.”
“Whence come wars, and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lusts of the body?”
“The being of all virtues, and chiefly of temperance, depends on the practice of them.”
“In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.”
“UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
“I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!”
“Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.”
“This is called teamwork. I furnish the brains. You furnish the muscles, the aches and the pains.”