Ancient Quote by Oscar Wilde

From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise…

— David Hume

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

— Dennis Lehane

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not…

— Arthur Helps

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

— Robin Hobb

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power -…

— Umberto Eco

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics…

— Walt Kelly

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a…

— William Thomas Green Morton

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

— Barbara Mertz

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

— Elizabeth Kostova

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

— Anonymous