“[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.” — Plato 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
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
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
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
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
I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are… — Moliere Copy Share Image
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life,… — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“Virtue is the product of good government. ‘Vices belong less to man, than to man badly governed.’ The political process, and the… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence.… — Steven Pressfield 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
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd… — George Edward Moore Copy Share Image
Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking. — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything. — Mason Cooley 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
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people. — Richard Henry Lee 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
Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is… — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut Copy Share Image
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad,"… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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