| Quote | Author | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
We must touch his weaknesses with a delicate hand. There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence, that we can scarce weed out the fault without eradicating the virtue. |
Oliver Goldsmith | 1728 – 1774 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. |
Francis Bacon | 1561 – 1626 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. |
Hannah Arendt | 1906 – 1975 | |
Three sparks—pride, envy, and avarice—have been kindled in all hearts. |
Dante Alighieri | 1265 – 1321 | |
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. |
Francis Bacon | 1561 – 1626 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing. |
Jorge Luis Borges | 1899 – 1986 | |
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. |
Horace | 65 – 8 BC |