Character Quote by Torquato Tasso Download Open image “Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.” — Torquato Tasso ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Ease Labor Sleep Virtue
If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“Our nights are different. She falls asleep like someone yielding to the gentle tug of a warm tide, and floats with confidence till morning.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Perhaps if only once you did enjoy The thousandth part of all the happiness A heart beloved enjoys, returning love, Repentant, you would surely… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught. — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
“Hadst thou but tasted once the thousandth part Of joys, which bless the loved and loving heart, Your words repentant and your sighs would… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their speech is… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
“Clorinda fui, né sol qui spirto umano albergo in questa pianta rozza e dura, ma ciascun altro ancor, franco o pagano, che lassi i… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay, And joy springs up e'en in the midst of fear. [It., Bello in si bella vista… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
