#virtues

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#consideration #creature #dies #given #imaginary

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #faith #life #patience #religion

The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#christianity #dharma #ethics #judaism #niyama

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#credit #crimes #even #everything #forgive

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#faults #loved #more #show #than

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#any #because #greatest #haven #may

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#destroys #difficult #enemy #extremely #great

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#always #any #considered #deceiving #great

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#best #breed #cheerfulness #content #diligence

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#his #judge #mainly #man #real