Qualities

Famous quotes containing the word qualities:

“The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)