What did Josh Billings mean by: Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ No one can disgrace us but ourselves. Feraz Zeid, September 1, 2023December 24, 2023, Josh Billings, Comedy, Self-esteem, Self-Respect, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Adversity, Hero, Prosperity, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Comedy, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Poverty is the step-mother of genius. Feraz Zeid, August 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Genius, Mother, Poverty, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ There is not a whole lot of fun in medicine but there is a whole lot of medicine in fun. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Fun, Medicine, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Innocence, Innocent, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Choices, Opportunity, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Wisdom, Wise, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. 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
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion. - Jean Fritz
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
