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Popularity is a Crime from the Moment it is sought; it is only a Virtue where Men have it whether they will or no.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Moral Thoughts and Reflections
- Fame
No Man is so much a Fool as not to have Wit enough sometimes to be a Knave; nor any so cunning a Knave, as not to have the Weakness sometimes to play the Fool.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Moral Thoughts and Reflections
- Character
- Intelligence
A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), “Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections”
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop!
Mario Savio1942–1996Speech at Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley (2 December 1964)
- Freedom
- Responsibility
Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, Vol. 1. Ch. 4: Position, or a Man’s Place in the Estimation of Others, §4-Honor
- Fame
- Honor
Rascals are always sociable — more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, Vol. 1, Ch. 5, § 9
- Character
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that distinguishes the philosopher.
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (November 1815)
- Courage
- Philosophy
The only way out of today’s misery is for people to become worthy of each other’s trust.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Reverence for Life (1969)
- Character
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics
- Morality
- Responsibility
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 164
- Advice
- Charity
It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Out of My Life and Thought (1931), Epilogue
- Responsibility
I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
Robert Falcon Scott1868–1912“Message to the Public” (March 1912), in Scott’s Last Expedition (1913), vol. 1
- Courage
- Life & Death
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I.
Walter Scott1771–1832The Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto V, stanza 10.
- Courage
Chivalry!⁠—why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection⁠—the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant⁠—Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.
Walter Scott1771–1832Ivanhoe (1819), Chapter XXIXIn context
- Honor
- Liberty
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXVII: Some arguments in favor of the simple life, Line 30
- Responsibility