Consequence Quote by Robert Blair

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

— Margaret Cavendish

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

— Honore de Balzac

“It is of capital importance for us to discipline the heart,[FN#209] otherwise it will discipline us. Passions are like legs. They should be guided…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

— Marquis de Sade

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

— Henry David Thoreau

“To prosper in this world, to gain felicity, victory and improvement, either for a man or a nation, there is but one thing requisite,…

— Thomas Carlyle

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

— Walter Scott

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel…

— Walter Savage Landor

“Just as faith teaches us that the sovereign felicity of the other life consists in the contemplation of the divine majesty alone, so even…

— René Descartes

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The essential passions of the heart have found a better soil in which it may attain it's maturity; remain under less restraint and extended…

— Anonymous