“Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.” GivingSufferingValuesLiteratureCourageVirtueDepressionPitySelf Pity Author:Anatole France
“There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.” KnowsGivingWellsKindDoeCertainVirtueConscienceSatisfactionGenerousRejoiceInwardCongratulationsBoldnessAccompany Book:Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
“Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.” GivingChildrenArtEndsWealthVirtueOur ChildrenAdversityYour Children Author:Ludwig van Beethoven
“He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted with one science, and even of that one only knows the small corner in which he is an active investigator. He even proclaims it as a virtue that he takes no cognisance of what lies outside the narrow territory specially cultivated by himself, and gives the name of "dilettantism" to any curiosity for the general scheme of knowledge.” KnowsMenGivingLyingOrderNamesKnownVirtueJudgmentCuriosityCornersActiveTerritorySchemesBe A ManSpecialistsInvestigators Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.” WorldGivingHumansLightEarthStrongHeavenPrayerSimpleWhiteSunVirtueMaterialsKeysPureShiningPossessionCirclesInnocenceQueensGloriousCompanionLionsNeverthelessVirginsCovenantLambsInvincibleMaterial WorldArk Author:Honore de Balzac