We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at… — Antonio de Oliveira Salazar Copy Share Image
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
I look forward serenely to the course of events, confident that the Fountain of supreme wisdom and virtue will provide for the… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
“However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment’s forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I think my greatest virtue is that I have the courage to take tough decisions. As for my greatest fault, I guess… — Ajay Piramal Copy Share Image
Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes… — Danielle Teller Copy Share Image
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Around 2am as I was performing misogi, I suddenly forgot all the martial techniques I had ever learned. The techniques of my… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever … Happiness then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When we talk about adversity, this is the moment when character really gets tested. When things aren't going the way you want… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I do believe that by virtue of having a volunteer army, you are going to have men and women who decide to… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are… — Satchel Paige Copy Share Image
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all… — Vicomte De Valmont Copy Share Image
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Being defiant is a two-year-old who doesn't want to go to bed when he's tired. Being resolute is standing one's ground even… — Minisinoo 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
