Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.
“Most people however much they might deny it had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.”
“Her mask gave no sign of how this affected her.”
“Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.”
“Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.”
“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause. ”
“Figure out your passion. What floats your boat, rings your bell, lights your tree? A life without passion is possible, but not desirable. Have you really lived at all if you have not lived with pas...”
“While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of t...”
“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something els...”
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”
“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”
“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”