A Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Avoiding Chiefly Consists Faults Many People Them Virtue

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
German - Scientist
July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

Horace

Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them

Dan Schilling

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Alphonse Karr

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

Ellen Key

Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.

C. S. Lewis

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.

Benjamin Watson

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

Barbara Mandrell

No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.