Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and… — John Jewel Copy Share Image
If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze."… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
“O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No person, no matter how clever and deceitful, can indefinitely hide a character that is rotten and out of tune with God.… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
“What is it that constitutes virtue, Mrs. Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“In our hearts, we want to believe in—and would choose—great accomplishment and virtue. That’s why our lies, particularly to ourselves, are so… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Penance should be but the means to increase virtue according to the needs of the individual, and according to what the soul… — Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as… — Horace Copy Share Image
“In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks… — Confucius Copy Share Image
You came empty handed, but of course that is not up to the world, will be with you'r Sin virtue, which will… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
![“We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond every assertion, being the perfect and unique cause of all things, and, by virtue of Its preeminently simple and absolute nature, free of every limitation, beyond every limitation; it is…” quote by Pope Dionysius](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a33/pope-dionysius-28663_absolutes_we-make-assertions-and-denials-of-what-i_1222781.jpg)
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