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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Marcus Aurelius121–180III, 7
- Character
- Honor
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948“Interview to the Press” in Karachi about the execution of Bhagat Singh (23 March 1931); published in Young India (2 April 1931), reprinted in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Online Vol. 51
- Forgiveness
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948To Every Briton (1940)
- Charity
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Introduction to Men at War (1942)
- Courage
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
- Happiness
- Responsibility
Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 118: (p. 66)
- Honor
These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address (1933)
- Charity
It would be better for me… that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
Socrates470–399 BCGorgias, 482c
- Character
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide1869–1951Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d’automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)
- Character
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
John Locke1632–1704Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 70
- Knowledge
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
John Locke1632–1704Letter to Anthony Collins (29 October 1703)
- Truth & Lies
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Plain Speaker (1826)
- Character
- Pride
This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers.
We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)
- Courage
- War & Peace
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
- Courage
- Fear
The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Patrologia Latina, vol. 37, p. 1922
- Charity
- Money