Being real Quote by Marcus Aurelius

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must…

— Ernest Renan

“To be good is an unnatural condition. There is no man that is born knowing what humility is, what kindness and compassion and hope…

— Carlos Ramirez

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Here’s a way to think about what the masses regard as being ‘good’ things. If you would first start by setting your mind upon…

— Ryan Holiday

“But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things…

— Plutarch

“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural…

— Alija Izetbegović

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled…

— Aristotle

Good nature without prudence, is foolishness

— Proverb

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people,…

— Bertrand Russell

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a…

— Umera Ahmed

“I agree that is it important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between…

— Christopher Paolini

“Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in example rather…

— Edward Hooker Dewey