If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 77
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 59
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 4
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. Napoleon Bonaparte French General More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes 2
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else? Sydney J. Harris American Journalist More Sydney J. Harris Quotes 1
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. Akhenaton Egyptian Statesman More Akhenaton Quotes 1
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. Aristotle Greek Philosopher More Aristotle Quotes 1
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. Aristotle Greek Philosopher More Aristotle Quotes 1
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. Buddha Leader More Buddha Quotes 1
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. John Burns English Activist More John Burns Quotes 0
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. Anatole France French Novelist More Anatole France Quotes 0
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes 0
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. Oliver Goldsmith Irish Poet More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes 0
Our people were taken back to a culture of dependence. Our unity was destroyed, as tribalism was entrenched. The virtues of hard work were displaced, as national coffers were opened wide for looters. Mwai Kinaki More Mwai Kinaki Quotes 0
Let's be clear: I do not advocate the virtues of a new African diplomatic model and do not pretend to be its theoretician. Omar Bongo More Omar Bongo Quotes 0
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits. Robert Southey English Poet More Robert Southey Quotes 0
Unless I accept my virtues, I most certainly will be overwhelmed by my faults. Robert Coleman More Robert Coleman Quotes 0
The virtues of donations are great because it helps the needy and at the same time it gives an opportunity to the donor to give the surplus to the people in need. It helps the needy to sustain himself. . Sam Veda More Sam Veda Quotes 0
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Sir Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Sir Walter Scott Quotes 0
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. Sidonie Gabrielle More Sidonie Gabrielle Quotes 0
A man's virtues, it seems to me, are his abilities, and his vices are his deficiencies. Stephen Vizinczey More Stephen Vizinczey Quotes 0
Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is. Sydney J. Harris American Journalist More Sydney J. Harris Quotes 0
Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. Thomas More English Humanist More Thomas More Quotes 0