Evil Quote by Giovanni Ruffini Download Open image “Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.” — Giovanni Ruffini ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evil Ifs Inspirational Selfishness Traits Wisdom
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a distinct ability to distinguish and define effortlessly the hairline difference between Love Yourself and Your Selfishness. - — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another. — Anuj Copy Share Image
A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a… — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind. — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study. — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered. — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
“A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.” — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade.… — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey… — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those… — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
