Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I've been standing up against what I call the 'virtue signalling' from Justin Trudeau which actually ignores the real challenges of the… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
“I've come to believe that virtue isn’t a condition of character. It’s an elected action. It’s a choice we keep making, over… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Virtue does not consist in whether you face towards the East or the West; virtue means believing in God, the Last Day,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience… — Carl Hilty Copy Share Image
Would it be better if religions were to disappear? I have no idea. Since I do not have any confidence in the… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by… — William Booth Copy Share Image
You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“My hate is general, I detest all men; Some because they are wicked and do evil, Others because they tolerate the wicked,… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The favorite method of vice is to diss all responsibility be work or social, go off by myself, and enjoy a good… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here.… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several… — Francis Hutcheson Copy Share Image
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
