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“True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity.”

Ifs Heart Virtue Objects Goes On Holy Limits Capable Infinite Charity Saint Infinity Definite

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.”

Knows Order Evil Winning Know How Virtue Limits True Meaning Good Evil Life Has No Meaning

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.”

May Space Vision Virtue Limits Photography Slavery Time And Space Lenses Freeze Freeze Time

Book:A guide to better photography

Source: A guide to better photography

“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.”

“Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.”

May Truth Belief Virtue Truth Is Limits Essentials Ideals Endless Statements Abstract Ingredients Confession Investigation

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.”

Philosophy Virtue Limits Achievement Prosperity Contradiction Good Life

Book:The Irony of American History

Source: The Irony of American History

“Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.”

Ifs Men May Art Liberty Opinion Virtue Limits All Things Orthodoxy

Author:Arturo Toscanini

“Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.”

Men Needs Power Virtue Goes On Prove Limits Abuse Every Man

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.”

Men Doe Desire Wealth Sleep Poverty Virtue Rich Doors Limits Satisfaction Happy Setting Settings Miserable Being Happy Beggar Rich Man Tibetan Miserable People

Author:Dalai Lama

“Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.”

May Has Beens Able Law Virtue Rights Crime Limits Degrees Sacred Extremes Innocence

Author:Jean Racine

“And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.”

Want Persons Soul Action Natural Poor Fiction Virtue Subjects Materials Limits Tragedy Contrary Instruction Elegant Limbs Envious Deflection

Book:The Works of George Chapman: Plays

Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays

“Virtue has needs of limits.”

Needs Virtue Limits

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.”

Mean Virtue Limits All Things Cease

Author:Horace

“Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.”

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition