"Plato found fault that the poets of his……" — Philip Sidney
"Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions."
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Philip Sidney
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63 Quotes by Philip Sidney
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle…
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's…
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The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
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My true love hath my heart, and I have his
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A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and…
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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
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More Depraved Quotes
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The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the…
— William Jenkyn
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We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty
— Gordon Clark
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Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not…
— Unknown Author
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or…
— Margaret Mead
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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
— Bob Cousy
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Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it.…
— Ayn Rand
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It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is…
— Adolf Hitler
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The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across…
— Wess Stafford
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Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species…
— Horace Bushnell
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There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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