No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him. — William Habington Copy Share Image
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have discovered the virtue of patience and I don't quite believe that taking a break for good reason can be a… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His… — Kylie Bisutti Copy Share Image
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“How vain are all these Glories, all our Pains, Unless good Sense preserve what Beauty gains: That Men may say, when we… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
As an actor, technically, when you are off a film, you are out of a job. An actor goes from job to… — Aditya Roy Kapur Copy Share Image
The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I can understand that the man you told me about has offended you, and I am very annoyed that he forgot himself… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Simplicity, patience and forgiveness are three virtues which makes one able to keep good attitude. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.” — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. — Ammianus Marcellinus Copy Share Image
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the… — Menzies Campbell Copy Share Image
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
No one benefits from us not taking credit for our successes. There is no virtue in allowing kudos to go unclaimed or… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image