Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.” — Plato Copy Share Image
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. — Mencius Copy Share Image
The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself… — Roman Baldorioty de Castro Copy Share Image
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I'm a grinder…I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Papanicolaou published for 15 years before anyone would listen to him, but now you find (the) ACS extolling the virtue of the… — Daniel S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people. — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils:” — Émile Souvestre Copy Share Image
![“[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/6e6/plato-103_peace_on-the-virtuous-man-he-combines-the-high_1874609.jpg)
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