Endowment Quote by Plutarch Download Open image “There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.” — Plutarch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Endowment Men Political Politics Virtue
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
None of us is perfect. There was only one perfect man who ever walked the earth, and He was the Son of God. We… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect. — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The world will not give you an endowment for your finger-painting. Your finger-painting may be marvelous, but our government and society do not value… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be… — David Selby Copy Share Image
“Love can be a natural endowment, a present, or a gift. If it is not just a donation, it can be a divine talent.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates… — Robert Atkins Copy Share Image
Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness and Ideality,… — George Combe Copy Share Image
