“The unseen essential can be described in many ways and comes in many forms, but is always preceded by virtue.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.” — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he… — William Ames Copy Share Image
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Well, if I cannot be sensible and popular at the same time, then I will always choose the virtue rather than the… — Thomas Cullinan Copy Share Image
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a… — Boethius Copy Share Image
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
“Blessed is he who learns how to engage in inquiry, with no impulse to harm his countrymen or to pursue wrongful actions,… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Live your life at your own will.Not caring what other expects from you.Strive to prove your virtue & prove yourself better than… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“...for although we may fully respect our social conventions...it may unfortunately happen that , through the perversity of others we encounter only… — Marquis deSade Copy Share Image
The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life,… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue? — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
They said Life is a virtue. But they never mentioned that it was gonna hurt you. — Mary Gaohlee Thao Copy Share Image
“Every conceivable vice, it seemed, had a society in New York dedicated to its prevention.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves. — Michel Quoist Copy Share Image
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.” — Guglielmo Ferrero Copy Share Image
“The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence. — Ralph Venning Copy Share Image
Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away… — Frederic Mistral Copy Share Image