Character Quote by Al-Shafi‘i

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

— Plato

Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary.

— Linji Yixuan

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

— Confucius

The grandest virtue seems deficient.

— Laozi

Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite…

— Albert Bandura

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A person functioning exclusively in the Cartesian mode may be free from manifest symptoms but cannot be considered mentally healthy. Such individuals typically lead…

— Fritjof Capra

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

— Ted Malloch

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his…

— Samuel Johnson

The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of…

— Andre Gide

“wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any…

— Peter Marshall