L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu. <br class="br"> Les Dieux Ont Soif http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Dieux_ont_soif_-_Chapitre_XV [The Gods Are Thirsty] (1912), ch. XV
“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)
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
Source: The Cabinet Council (published 1658), Chapter 25
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
IX. On Providence, Fate, and Fortune.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
“I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Source: War and Peace
Marina Warner (1946) writer and mythographer
Joan of Arc (Harmondsworth, Penguin, [1981] 1983) p. 262.
“The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 207
R. H. Tawney (1880–1962) English philosopher
Part IV, Ch. 2
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)
“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”
Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Virtue has her heroes too
As well as Fame and Fortune.”
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act I, sc. vii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
