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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Peter Ustinov1921–2004BBC obituary (2004)
- Responsibility
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov1921–2004BBC obituary (2004)
- Forgiveness
- Love
I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating.
Jules Verne1828–1905Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XIn context
- Character
- Freedom
Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the higher altruism.
Gore Vidal1925–2012Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 24
- Charity
- Money
Blessings on your young courage, boy; that’s the way to the stars.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 641
- Courage
- Youth
Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 95
- Courage
Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Lines 435–436 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
Fortune befriends the bold.
Virgil70–19 BCThe Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XIn context
- Courage
- Luck
Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone⁠—“Have no fear.”
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Pearls of Wisdom
- Courage
- Fear
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Pearls of Wisdom
- Courage
- Truth & Lies
This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902“Our Duty to the Masses”, letter to the Maharaja of Mysore (23 June 1894), Complete Works, vol. 4
- Charity
- Life & Death
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire1694–1778
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire1694–1778Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750)
- Sex
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly — that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire1694–1778“Tolerance” (1764)
- Forgiveness
That everyone is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn’t necessarily perverse.
David Foster Wallace1962–2008Infinite Jest (1996)
- Character