“To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.” MenHas BeensDoneLyingVirtueGreaterWorstBoundsVicesInsightCriminalsSecureMediocrityApprovalConventional Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.” SpiritLyingDesireVirtueAmbitionPhilosopherVicesConquerHeroicThirstyFrenzy Author:Johann Georg Hamann
“Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.” MenLyingPromiseShameBraveVicesBrave ManStoops Author:Pierre Corneille
“Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.” WayTwoLyingHalfVirtueOppositesVicesHalf WayTwo Opposites Author:Horace