Unbearable but true things Quote by Mak_786_correction By Intazar

Every demerit has the potential to become a merit.

— Mak_786

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

— William Hazlitt

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled...

— Christopher Hitchens

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

— St. Catherine of Siena

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

— Samuel Johnson

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

— Anonymous

The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

From the point of view of the relative world, merit is very important.

— Tenzin Palmo

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself.

— Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

— Charles Lamb