What did Washington Irving mean by: Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. - Washington Irving Author · USA Copy
+ Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Feraz Zeid, August 4, 2023December 29, 2023, Washington Irving, Purpose, Wish, 0 - Washington Irving Author · USA
+ It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Washington Irving, Poverty, Ruined, 0 - Washington Irving Author · USA
+ There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Washington Irving, Affection, Moments, Sorrow, 0 - Washington Irving Author · USA
+ The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Washington Irving, Englishmen, Evil, Neglect, 0 - Washington Irving Author · USA
+ after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head Feraz Zeid, August 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Washington Irving, Mischief, 0 - Washington Irving Author · USA
+ A mother is the truest friend we have. Feraz Zeid, August 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Washington Irving, Mom, Mother, 0 - Washington Irving Author · USA
+ After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Washington Irving, Divinity, Spiritual Life, 0 - Washington Irving Author · USA
+ Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint. Feraz Zeid, September 28, 2023December 26, 2023, Washington Irving, Complaints, Contagious, Poetry, 0 - Washington Irving Author · USA
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · 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
