Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.” — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Bravery is a virtue people revere in dead soldiers and then turn to disparage in someone extending her hand to a weirdo. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice. — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue -… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation.… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
“Every perfection in this life has some imperfection mixed with it and no learning of ours is without some darkness. Humble knowledge… — Thomas à Kempis 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
“virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason... — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife. — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
“Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake. — Sallust Copy Share Image
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. — Matthew Prior 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
Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
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
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
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
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. — Francis Bacon 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 and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
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