Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach on virtue

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

The world would be in better shape if people would take the same pains in the practice of the simplest moral laws as they exert in intellectualizing over the most subtle moral questions.

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

• Forgiveness
• Love
• Theology

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle384–322 BC

• Courage

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context

• Forgiveness