Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here.… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget… — Arthur Twining Hadley Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers. — William Fleming Copy Share Image
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be… — Don Herold Copy Share Image
O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish. — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
The Holy Eucharist is like a divine Storehouse filled with every virtue; God has placed It in the world so that everyone… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“When one's unconscious is full of vice, nothing realizes inner potential like hypocrisy.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts. — Confucius Copy Share Image
