Quotes about virtue
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Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XLI- Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1777)
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785) (20 September 1773)Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785) (17 September 1773)Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Rambler (1750–1752), No. 135 (2 July 1751)- Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV (June 1784) p. 526
- Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (14 July 1763) p. 123
John Paul Jones1747–1792Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778), as quoted in The Naval History of the United States (1890) by Willis John Abbot, p. 82- John Paul Jones1747–1792Reply when asked whether his ship had struck, Battle of Flamborough Head (23 September 1779), as recalled by his first lieutenant, Richard Dale, in John Henry Sherburne’s Life and Character of John Paul Jones (1825); Jones’s own report gives no such words
Erica Jongborn 1942How to Save Your Own Life (1977)A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert1754–1824The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, tr. Paul Auster (1983)He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances.
Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!
Ernst Jünger1895–1998On Pain (1934)- Ernst Jünger1895–1998The Glass Bees (1957)
