Benefits Quote by Marcus Eremita

He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does…

— John Climacus

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

— Albert Camus

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it;…

— Michel de Montaigne

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on…

— Heinrich Heine

Return goodness for hatred.The wise man hates not,but seeks always to do good.He will not enter a dispute and he have no one disputing…

— Taoism

“Truth is nothing if not unchangeable, and in so far as a man takes his stand upon Truth does he become steadfast in virtue,…

— James Allen

He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his…

— Plato

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous…

— James Russell Lowell

Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others,…

— Socrates