A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶171 (1665-1678) [tr. Whichello (2016)]
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Virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. [Les vertus se perdent dans l’intérêt, comme les fleuves se perdent dans la mer.] Present in the 1st (1665) edition, which began the maxim with "Toutes les vertus se perdent [All virtues are lost] ...." (Source (French)). Other…
A quotation from Samuel Johnson
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; and if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; and…
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