Character Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Smith emphasized that trust, responsibility and accountability exist only in a society that respects them, and only where the spontaneous fruit of human sympathy…

— Roger Scruton

'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which…

— David Hume

“Men of action must be led by men of virtue, else there is no honor, merely chaos and barbarism.”

— Curtis Craddock

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

— Abigail Adams

“Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in…

— Miguel de Cervantes

The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of…

— Alexander Hamilton

“For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more…

— Plutarch

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone…

— Lord Chesterfield

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld