What did Josh Billings mean by: We should make virtue our master, not our servant. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Funny, Trust, Truth, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Bait, Debt, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Jealousy is one of love’s parasites. Feraz Zeid, October 27, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Jealousy, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Funny, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I’d try a revolver first. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Funny, Humorous, Music, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Change, Fool, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Advice, Oil, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ [Science is] the literature of truth. Feraz Zeid, June 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Science, 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
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
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland