Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us 35 within ourselves. Sir Thomas Browne.

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all. Emerson.

"The victory of Miltiades does not suffer me to sleep." Themistocles, in reference to the battle of Marathon.

The violets and the mayflowers are as the inscriptions or vignettes of spring. It always makes a pleasant impression on us when we open again at these pages of the book of life, its most charming chapter. Goethe.

The virtue of great souls is justice (Gerechtigkeit). Platen.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, 40 as regulated by wisdom. Arist.

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God. Renan.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Bacon.

The virtue of sex is the occasion of mutual teaching; the woman preaching love in the ears of justice, and the man justice in the ears of love. Amiel.

The virtue of the man who lives according to the precepts of reason shows itself equally great in avoiding as in overcoming dangers. Spinoza.