What did Josh Billings mean by: We should make virtue our master, not our servant. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Art, Superiors, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Grief, Widows, 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
+ The man who has never been tempted doesn’t know how dishonest he is. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Tempted, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves. Feraz Zeid, September 25, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Advice, Example, Prove, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess. Feraz Zeid, September 12, 2023December 26, 2023, Josh Billings, Ethics, Honesty, Wealth, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense. Feraz Zeid, July 21, 2023December 12, 2023, Josh Billings, Comedy, Common Sense, Genius, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Convince, Logic, Politeness, 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
