“virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.” — Plato 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
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof… — John Adams Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind… — Laozi Copy Share Image
No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of;… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions. — Mark Heard Copy Share Image
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other’s… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
