“We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?”
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Ayn Rand
9 quotes“Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont”
Saint Augustine
8 quotes“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicke...”
David Hume
7 quotes“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
Dante
6 quotes“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.”
Thomas Paine
4 quotes“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in pri...”
Einstein
4 quotes“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
Pope Benedict XVI
4 quotes“Purity of heart is what enables us to see.”
Marcus Aurelius
4 quotes“The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.”
Neal Shusterman
3 quotes“But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.”
Adam Smith
3 quotes“In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3 quotes“in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.”
Alexander Pope
3 quotes“Order is heaven's first law.”