To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness? — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Stella, the only planet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire, Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
