Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her. — Horace Copy Share Image
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted. — Eusebius Copy Share Image
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“God didn't call me to kill me. He called me to glory and virtue. My body has dropped on His feet to… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
So, the next time you're out working on your game and they pass you the rock, don't just take it to the… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
“The chief obstacle is that we are quick to be satisfied with ourselves. If we find someone to call us good men,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness — Shri Radhe Maa Copy Share Image
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades. — William Anthony Donohue Copy Share Image
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks. — John Vianney Copy Share Image
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
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