Righteous Man Quotes
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 104), 1895.
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin
Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.135, Behrman House, Inc
"The Drowned and the Saved". Book by Primo Levi, 1986.
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
"Aegeus". Play by Euripides, 431 BCE.
The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5116, e-artnow
Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.
Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping with Strangers”, p.86, Penguin
"The Odes and Selected Fragments" by Pindar. Fragment 159; p. 387, 1997.
Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume
John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.425, Oxford University Press
Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.159, Princeton University Press
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
Edmund Spenser (1805). “The Works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.37