For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God's sake? But God has so ordained, that we… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The… — Marshall Field Copy Share Image
It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for… — Plato Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend. If… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man… — Percy Dearmer Copy Share Image
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don't… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning.… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
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