Admire Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

“A virtuous man may have a choleric or a sanguine constitution, be gay or grave, unreproved, be firm till he is almost over-bearing, or…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard…

— Laozi

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation…

— Aristotle

“The man who indulges us in this natural passion, who invites us into his heart, who, as it were, sets open the gates of…

— Adam Smith

'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be…

— William Shakespeare

“In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be under trying…

— Terry Lee Rioux

The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of…

— Dayananda Saraswati

Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it is the…

— Thomas Paine

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

— Voltaire

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,…

— Bible

Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else,…

— John Wilmot

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the…

— Hannah More