“The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.” LittlesDesireWishExcellenceAttributesMoral Excellence Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.” IfsMenWorldWritingBelieveMayYoungPoliticalDesireLostActingEnemyVirtueCrimeHabitHarderDareYoung ManWickedAttributesFelicityWicked ManKnowledge Of The WorldPolitical Writing Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.” MenBelieveMayDesireEnemyVirtueCrimeDareWickedAttributesWicked Man Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.” FacesDesireNamesFitCreaturesBlameAssumingFaultsLustHidingAttributesBrutesSecond PlaceShroudsLustful Book:Poems ... Source: Poems ...
“It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.” ThinkingMenWantFirstsDesireMethodIllContraryTyrannyOppressionSufficientFrustrationAttributesModerationOppressorsRigor Book:The Portable Edmund Burke Source: The Portable Edmund Burke
“Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.” NeedsHumansLittlesHas BeensMadeStillsIdeasEndsGovernmentFacesDesireCertainImaginationCreativeImpossibleMankindDivineConceptsOrganizationGuidanceGrantsAttributesMultipleMysticalMediocreRulingMachinerySplendidMundaneHuman ImaginationSystems Of GovernmentDivine GuidanceDeep DesireInquirers Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings
“The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.” HumansLittlesDesireLeftWishMoralJudgingDegreesIntellectualTasksExcellenceStriveLatterAttributesInvitesShrinksTribunalsMoral Excellence Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton