Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit (Whom virtue unites, death cannot separate)” — The Scottish Rite Fourteenth degree Copy Share Image
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue,… — Amanda Quick Copy Share Image
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When you live the virtues - when you live in that place of God-consciousness - all these rules we have about cause… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Bring things to life and nurture them, But have no thoughts of possession. Act without relying on anything; Bring things along, but… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Family values represent the core values and guidelines that parents and family members hold in high regard for the well-being of the… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses itself any reaction with regard to itself or its deeds. This virtue differs… — Francois Fenelon 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
Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others. — Aristotle 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
If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her. — Horace 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
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand.” — Terry Darlington Copy Share Image
“A real relationship of a man and wife is a ground on the roots of virtue and honour.” — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.” — Barbara Pym 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
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
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
