Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason... — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice. — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. — Matthew Prior Copy Share Image
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake. — Sallust Copy Share Image
“Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife. — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Of all our basic virtues, courage is the one that helps us to live exactly the way we want and provides the… — Robert Biswas-Diener Copy Share Image
It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Whoever entered the political realm had first to be ready to risk his life, and too great a love for life obstructed… — Hannah Copy Share Image
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hypocrites act by virtue… They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
By Allah, whenever I endure any adversity I gain four blessings of Allah in exchange. The first of them is, when the… — Umar Copy Share Image
One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height;… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
