Character Quote by Confucius

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

— Seamus Heaney

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

— Jose Rizal

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.

— Edgar Mitchell

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

— Tacitus

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

— Anonymous

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

— John Stott

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

— Steven Berkoff

“Since both knowledge and virtue require the concept of transcendence, they are really obnoxious to those committed to material standards…”

— Richard M. Weaver

“The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of…

— Alain de Botton

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

— William Howard Taft

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the…

— Thomas Huxley

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

— F. Sionil Jose