Eighth Virtuous Prince

Famous quotes containing the words eighth, virtuous and/or prince:

    “We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness—the eighth beatitude.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    “The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Daddy?
    That’s another kind of prison.
    It’s not the prince at all,
    but my father
    drunkenly bent over my bed,
    circling the abyss like a shark....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)