#ares

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#complete #formation #ground #habit #indeed

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#death #nearest #parents #store #taking

Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy? ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#closet #comes #happy #long #out

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bed #eats #evil #human #our

All that we are not stares back at what we are. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#stares

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? ↗

— Amelia Barr

#know #nearest #our #own

The resolved mind hath no cares. ↗

— George Herbert

#hath #mind #resolved

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#cares #character #epoch #general #general character

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#behind #cares #else #great #just

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#cares #catch #door #else #fire