“A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.”
Nahj al-Balagha
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Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Narrated in Mosnad Ahmad, #22978
Sunni Hadith
“If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 89
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Non ingannare mai una persona corretta. Una persona corretta, quando la inganni può diventare peggiore di una persona scorretta.
Source: prevale.net
“I never thought an angry person valiant:
Virtue is never aided by a vice.”
Lovel, Act IV, Scene iii
The New Inn, or The Light Heart (licensed 19 January 1629; printed 1631)
“The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Quoted in Victor J. Stenger (1990), Physics and Psychics
Misattributed
“More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.”
Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864) English writer
The Analysis of the Hunting Field (1846) ch. 1
“Benevolence is more a vice of pride than a true virtue of the soul.”
Marquis de Sade Philosophy in the Bedroom
First Dialogue, Delmonce
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)
“There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.”
Maureen O'Hara (1920–2015) Irish-American film actress and singer
Source: Tis Herself (2004), p.239