“Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.”
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“Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.”
Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer
Source: Gates of Paradise
“We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise.
Maxim 25.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.”
Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged
Source: Atlas Shrugged
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
C'est une des superstitions de l'esprit humain d'avoir imaginé que la virginité pouvait être une vertu.
Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750)
This quotation and the three that follow directly below are from the so-called Leningrad Notebook, also known as Le Sottisier; it is one of several posthumously published notebooks of Voltaire.
Citas
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Karma
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Envy
Essays (1625)
Context: A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.
Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328) Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, who lived during the era of the first Mamluks (1250-1328)
Ibn Taymiyyah, A. (2004) Majmu’ al-Fatawa. Vol 14, p. 266.