Quotes about virtue
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Neil Gaimanborn 1960Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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. 51The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948To Every Briton (1940)I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield1831–1881A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being A Cyclopedia Of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 327
Charles de Gaulle1890–1970Le Fil de l’épée (1932)- Charles de Gaulle1890–1970Speech, July 14 1943.
Carl Friedrich Gauss1777–1855Letter to Sophie Germain (30 April 1807)In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 48- Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 49.
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)
