月份: 2018 年 2 月

Virtue Ⅱ

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
—William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
—John Ruskin (1819-1900 British writer and art critic)
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950 British playwright)
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
—George Herbert (1593-1633 British priest and poet)
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
—Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899 American politician)
Physical bravery is an animal instinct, moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
—Stephen Phillips (1868-1915 British poet and dramatist)
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
—Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803 Italian dramatist and poet)
It is always time to do good.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 American poet)
People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
—Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695 French fabulist)
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s own the suffering and joys of others.
—Andre Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951 French novelist and essayist)
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
—Homer (9th Century B.C. Greek poet)
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862 American author)
He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.
—William Penn (1644-1718 British philosopher)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
—Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Indian Roman Catholic nun)
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
—Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871 British astronomer)

Virtue Ⅰ

The sum of behaviour is to retain a man’s own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.
—Francis Bacon (1561-1626 British philosopher and author)
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
—Gratian (359-383 Roman Emperor)
He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
—Frances Crofts Cornford (1886-1960 British poetess)
They can do all because they think they can.
—Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro 70-19 B.C. Roman poet)
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
—Samuel Johnson (1709-1784 British poet and essayist)
Without self-confidence we are as babies in the cradles.
—Virginia Woolf (1882-1941 British writer)
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
—Socrates (469-399 B.C. Greek philosopher)
Content is more than a kingdom.
—English proverb
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
—La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French writer)
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things.
—Friedrich Shiller (1759-1805 German poet and playwright)
Forgive thyself little, and others much.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881 British satirist)
To err is human; to forgive divine.
—Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet)
Pride goes before a fall.
—Old Testament
Wherever true valour is found, true modesty will there abound.
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911 British poet and dramatist)
No matter in what high esteem you are held, always have the courage to say to yourself: “I am always ignorant.”
—Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936 Russian physiologist)

Morality and Character

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
—William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
—George Washington (1732-1799 American 1st President)
Virtue alone is true nobility.
—Homer (9th Century B.C. Greek poet)
Fortune is the companion of virtue.
—Thomas Hardy (1840-1928 British novelist and poet)
Happiness is not the end of life, character is.
—Henry Word Beecher (1813-1887 American clergyman)
Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.
—Immanuel Kant (1724-1804 German philosopher)
Character is what you are in the dark.
—Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899 American evangelist)
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet and playwright)
True merit is like a river, the deeper it is the less noise it makes.
—Edsard Frederick Halifax (1881-1959 British politician)
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
—Francis Bacon(1561-1626 British philosopher and author)
Not the whiteness of years, but of morals, is praiseworthy.
—Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805 German poet and playwright)
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
—Jacqueline Bisset (1944- British actress)
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
—Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-1989 British philosopher)
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
—Faith Baldwin (1893-1978 American novelist)
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
—Immanuel Kant (1724-1804 German philosopher)

Speech

Language is the dress of thought.
—Anonymous
You are not skilled at speaking: you are only incapable of keeping silent.
—Epicharmus (ca. 540-450 B.C. Greek dramatist)
A bad meal can be redeemed by good conversation, but a good meal can be irretrievably ruined by bad conversation.
—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762 British writer)
Kind words are the music of the world.
—Frederick Fabre (1814-1863 British theologian)
Kind words don’t wear the tongue.
—Anonymous
Good words cost nothing but are worth much.
—Thomas Fuller (1608-1661 British churchman)
Plain speech is better than much wit.
—Anonymous
From hearing comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
—Italian proverb
Least said, soonest mended.
—Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832 British historical novelist and poet)
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American politician and scientist)
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
—Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet)
There are two kinds of cleverness, and both are priceless. One consists of thinking of a bright remark in time to say it. The other consists of thinking of it in time not to say it.
—The English Digest
He knows most who speaks least.
—Anonymous
A wise man thinks before he speaks, but a fool speaks and then thinks of what he has been saying.
—French proverb
It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing.
—The Irish Digest