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“Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.”

Mean Feelings Action Evil Names Emotion Moral Virtue Impossible Murder Regard Blame Dues Envy Instance Excess Adultery Theft Malice Deficiency Observance Being Bad

Author:Aristotle

“What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.”

Humans Virtue Madness Praise Blame

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.”

Culture Virtue Honor Blame Intellect

Book:The Liberal Imagination

Source: The Liberal Imagination

“Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone stares at them, everyone blames. But those bad girls sleep soundly at night, Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright, While our good girls toss and they turn- They lay awake for those who will burn.”

Night Turns Girl Sleep Virtue Grace Conscience Shame Blame Lays Staring Awake Soar Daylight Toss Fright Kites Good Girl Bad Girl

Author:Anna Godbersen

“The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.”

Ifs Knows Men Opinion Virtue Solitude Harder Praise Blame Familiar Great Men Mask Herds Accompany Respectability Inaccessible

Book:Friedrich Nietzsche: 100 Quotes on Strength, Power, and Honor

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche: 100 Quotes on Strength, Power, and Honor

“That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.”

Men Action Virtue Argument Blame Faults Criminals Peculiar Unnatural

Author:John Stuart Mill

“For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.”

Virtue Blame Faults Ripe

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.”

Knows Men Sports Virtue Praise Blame Excellent Characteristics Cheer Brilliant Ideas

Author:Satchel Paige

“There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of general venality, to lead a life of virtue and reason in the midst of sensualists, is a proof of a mind intent on nobler things than the praise or blame of men, of a soul fixed in the contemplation of the highest good, and superiour to the tyranny of custom and example.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius