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1 " But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. " " But you don’t get mad. Not like Pop does." " No, that’s true, I don’t get mad. Not at stories. They do disappoint me sometimes." He looked at the shelves. " Sometimes, they stab me in the heart. "
2 " Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale. "
― Mary Wollstonecraft
3 " It is not cynical to admit the past has been turned into a fiction. It is a story, not a fact. The real has been erased. Whole eras have been added or removed. Wars have been aggrandized, and human struggle relegated to the margins. Villains are redressed as heroes. Generous, striving, imperfect men and women have been stripped of their flaws or plucked of their virtues and turned into figurines of morality or depravity. Whole societies have been fixed with motive and visions and equanimity where there was none. Suffering has been recast as noble sacrifice! Do you know why the history of the Tower is in such turmoil? Because too many powerful men are fighting for the pen, fighting to write their story over our dead bodies. They know what is at stake: immortality, the character of civilization, and influence beyond the ages. They are fighting to see who gets to mislead our grandchildren. "
― , Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel, #2)
4 " As a nation, develop your wealth of virtues and watch yourself live better than most countries who brag themselves in their virtues of natural wealth "
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5 " I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those who ought to be models on which all may pattern their virtues are annulling the work wrought in the religious Orders by the spirit of the saints of old. "
― Teresa de Jesús , The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
6 " I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals. "
