Circumstances Quote by Anton Chekhov

“Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues.”

— James Aldridge

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

— Horace

“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our…

— Aristotle

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

— Paulo Coelho

“There can be no degradation, my Lord, where there is no vice,” replied Vivaldi; “and there are instances, pardon me, my Lord, there are…

— Ann Radcliffe

“There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close…

— Marcel Proust

“I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable…

— W. Somerset Maugham

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

— Samuel Butler

“I will not live in a realm where calculations of power supersede justice and law - regardless of how inconvenient that may be to…

— Jim Butcher

“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.”

— Charles M. Blow