Cards Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“The chief reason why the prince was so particularly disagreeable to Vronsky was that he could not help seeing himself in him. And what…

— Leo Tolstoy

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

— Mary Jo Putney

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

“He feared that principle, active principle, had been wanting; that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers by that…

— Jane Austen

Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

— Multatuli

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the…

— Susan Sontag

“A few individuals, by extraordinary genius, or by the accidental acquisition of a good set of intellectual habits, may work without principles in the…

— John Stuart Mill

“The real world didn’t well accommodate principles.”

— Paul S. Kemp

Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they are inconvenient.

— Simi Ngr

“On his death bed, he wrote his famous Dokkodo – final principles for the students of his school.   The third principle is, “In…

— Sebastian Marshall

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

— Marvin Bower