Love can be founded upon Nature only. [ Shenstone ]
True valor, friends, on virtue founded strong,
Meets all events alike. [ Mallet ]
All temptations are founded either in hope or fear. [ Proverb ]
Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehension. [ Lucan ]
Frugality is founded upon the principle, that all riches have limits. [ Burke ]
A republic is not founded on virtue, but on the ambition of its citizens. [ Voltaire ]
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power. [ Hazlitt ]
With most men unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another. [ Lichtenberg ]
Big destinies of nations or of persons are not founded gratis in this world. [ Carlyle ]
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. [ Jeffrey ]
With the majority of men unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another thing. [ Lichtenberg ]
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. [ Charles Sumner ]
Time destroys the groundless conceits of man, but confirms that which is founded on nature and reality. [ Cicero ]
Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain. [ J. Locke ]
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. [ Lavater ]
It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular. [ Hume ]
As friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious; for we soon find ill company to be like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. [ Chatfield ]
Love, when founded in the heart, will show itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies of fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition of the passion only argues little understanding or great insincerity. [ Goldsmith ]
Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal. [ Henry Giles ]
Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced. [ Bishop Hall ]
A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. [ Richter ]
All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions. [ Thomas Paine ]
It is necessary to look forward as well as backward, as some think it is always necessary to regulate their conduct by things that have been done of old times, but that past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on an alternative of some past that went before it. [ Madame De Stael ]
Experience: in that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself. Our observation employed either about external or sensible objects or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. [ John Locke ]
Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich and as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches, glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor. [ Quarles ]
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. [ Colton ]