Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Love without truth and honor is licentious in nature. Love without commitment is promiscuous and fleeting. Love without virtue and understanding is… — David W. Stevens, PhD Copy Share Image
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“We are good not in virtue of what we are but in virtue of what we are not, like darkness lit up… — Kathryn Tanner Copy Share Image
Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind,… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble,… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the… — Edward Topsell Copy Share Image
In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
William McKinley has left us a priceless gift in the example of a useful and pure life, in his fidelity to public… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of… — James Bryan Smith Copy Share Image
To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and… — Laozi Copy Share Image
He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of… — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
My experience with working with really great actors is you don't have to act. All you have to do is listen. And,… — Scoot McNairy Copy Share Image
