Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say,… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it. — William James Copy Share Image
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
The way I was raised and the people that I grew up around for the most part were very humble people, and… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I… — George Canning Copy Share Image
Do not say that faith in Christ alone can save you, for this is not possible if you do not attain love… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them.... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
