Humble Quote by Francis of Assisi

Good nature without prudence, is foolishness

— Proverb

“We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach.  Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“And babes are as capable of knowing these things as the wise and prudent; and they are often hid from these when they are…

— Jonathan Edwards

“In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“As human nature is essentially rational, it follows that the highest form of excellence, and the key to living harmoniously, is the perfection of…

— Don Robertson

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

— Aristotle

The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is a sign of our…

— Oscar Wilde

“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural…

— Alija Izetbegović

“The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another; it is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on…

— Heinrich Heine

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

— Charles Baudelaire

But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning,…

— Thomas Hobbes