Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 44
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“We give to necessity the praise of virtue.”
Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.
Book I, Chapter VIII, 14
Compare: "To maken vertue of necessite", Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Knightes Tale", line 3044
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)
Book III, lines 173–178
The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)
“Good actions give strength to ourselves, and inspire good actions in others.”
Duty: With Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance (1880), Ch. 2, p. 49
“Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.”
Source: Let Me be a Woman
“A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.”
J. Jonathan Gabay. Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium, p. 550. Elsevier 2007.
“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”
Source: Caddie Woodlawn's Family
“Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.”
As quoted by John Kenneth Galbraith in the Introduction to The Affluent Society (1977 edition)
“Give me a title and we'll start from there.”
Response to Harlan Ellison, at a suggestion to work together on a story, as quoted by Ellison in his introduction to "The Human Operators" in Partners in Wonder (2014)
