What did Alexander Pope mean by: Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. - Alexander Pope Poet · England Copy
+ The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Who ne’er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Alexander Pope, Father, Grief, Joy, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Holes, Poor, Soul, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. Feraz Zeid, September 16, 2023December 26, 2023, Alexander Pope, Criticism, Writing, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 17, 2024, Alexander Pope, Honesty, Lying, Motivation, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. Feraz Zeid, June 22, 2023December 12, 2023, Alexander Pope, Bent, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ And not a vanity is given in vain. Feraz Zeid, August 26, 2023December 24, 2023, Alexander Pope, Vain, Vanity, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Fate, Struggle, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
