Advantage Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be…

— Herman Melville

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

— Anonymous

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close…

— Victor Hugo

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

— William Dean Howells

The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.

— Helmut Schoeck

Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and…

— Marcus Aurelius

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even…

— Oliver Goldsmith

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

— Philemon

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of…

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Fundamental disposition towards others, assuming the character either of Envy or of Sympathy, is the point at which the moral virtues and vices of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer