Age Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee?…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero Karl Fried Muller

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

— Seneca the Younger

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings…

— James Allen

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

— Horace

Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

— Juvenal

“Most of us waste this extraordinary thing called life. We have lived forty or sixty years, have gone to the office, engaged ourselves in…

— Krishnamurti

“Can they supinely dream life away in the lap of pleasure, or in the languor of weariness, rather than assert their claim to pursue…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

— Orson Scott Card

“Evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face. While virtue is venerable as nothing…

— john steinbeck

“...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the…

— Daniel Defoe

“we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that…

— C.S. Lewis