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The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other’s superscriptions (Merit Quotes)
It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I’ve always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed (Merit Quotes)
Morality is a burglar’s tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime (Merit Quotes)
The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education (Merit Quotes)
Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods (Merit Quotes)
The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us (Merit Quotes)
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit (Merit Quotes)
Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood (Merit Quotes)
Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery (Merit Quotes)
Charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent (Merit Quotes)
The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied (Merit Quotes)
They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit (Merit Quotes)
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend (Merit Quotes)
The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be (Merit Quotes)
The merit of those who fill a space in the world’s history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue (Merit Quotes)
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them (Merit Quotes)
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune (Merit Quotes)
The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves (Merit Quotes)
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth (Merit Quotes)
Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy (Merit Quotes)
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty (Merit Quotes)
So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit (Merit Quotes)
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive (Merit Quotes)
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul (Merit Quotes)
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it (Merit Quotes)
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it (Merit Quotes)
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune (Merit Quotes)
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit (Merit Quotes)
I think there’s a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they’re not sufficient because markets don’t look after social needs (Merit Quotes)
Man’s highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them (Merit Quotes)