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“When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will find within us Christ the spring of life (cf. Gen. 26:15-18). Wisdom commands us to drink from this spring, saying, 'Drink water from your own pitchers and from the spring of your own wells' (Prov. 5:15). If we do this we shall find that the treasures of wisdom truly are within us.”

Ifs Wells Mean Christian Spiritual Christ Water Practice Virtue Drink Spring Treasure Command Contemplation Orthodox Pitcher Cfs Drink Water Spiritual Knowledge

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.”

Wells Said Might Age Virtue Hearing Dull Well Rounded

Book:Living Your Strengths

Source: Living Your Strengths

“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.”

Knows Giving Wells Kind Doe Certain Virtue Conscience Satisfaction Generous Rejoice Inward Congratulations Boldness Accompany

Book:Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays

Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays

“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”

Should Wells Children Art Parent Knowledge Virtue Concern Careful Manners Innocence Good Manners More Knowledge Speaking Well

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.”

Thinking Wells Children Mother Father Sin Virtue Written

Author:Charles Dickens

“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.”

Wells May Evil Interest Principles Watches Virtue Society Produce Integrity Aim Institutions Corruption Tendencies Agents Agency Productive Governing

Author:James F. Cooper

“In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.”

Wells Mean Matter Government Force Justice Virtue

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.”

Ifs Men Mind Wells Would Be Common Virtue Wise Equal Defense Common Sense Despise Homely

Author:Don Herold

“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

“It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.”

Men Mind Wells Heart Matter Eye Courses Sex Women Quality Knowing Virtue Grace Depends Chiefs Misfortunes Heart And Mind Captives Her Beauty Arbiter

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. It is the practice of sacrificing to those whom we meet in society, all the little inconveniences and preferences which will gratify them, and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration; it is the giving a pleasing and flattering turn to our expressions, which will conciliate others, and make them pleased with us as well as themselves. How cheap a price for the good will of another!”