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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus55–120
- Character
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus55–120
The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 94
- Character
Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 57
- Courage
- Thinking
A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 147
- Honor
- Risk
Charity is the great channel through which God passes all his mercy upon mankind.
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667Holy Dying (1651), chapter 2, section 3.
- Charity
- God
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955“The Evolution of Chastity” (February 1934), tr. René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
- Courage
- Faith
‘Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832), Stanza 7
- Character
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)In context
- Courage
- War & Peace
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)In context
- Responsibility
- War & Peace
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)In context
- Courage
- War & Peace
I held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Canto IIn context
- Change
- Character
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Ulysses (1842)In context
- Courage
- Motivation & Goals
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Charity
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Charity