“Virtue (or the man of virtue) is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter IV
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“Virtue (or the man of virtue) is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter IV
James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897) English mathematician
J. J. Sylvester. "A Probationary Lecture on Geometry", Collected Mathematical Papers, Vol. 2 (1908), p. 9 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miun.aas8085.0002.001;view=1up;seq=25
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
Epode, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 89
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book X, p. 367
Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) French historian and philosopher
Celui qui étudie un texte ou des microbes ou les étoiles doit se défaire de sa subjectivité... c'est là un idéal qu'il faut essayer de rejoindre par une certaine pratique. Disons que l'objectivité est une vertu, d'ailleurs très diffice à pratiquer.
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Vice and Virtue, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
Brother Lawrence book The Practice of the Presence of God
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
Leon MacLaren (1910–1994) British philosopher
Leon MacLaren, The Machinery of Government, 1998
“People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it.”
Denis Diderot book Rameau's Nephew
Rameau's Nephew (1762)
Context: People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.