There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured.… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
“Virtue, whatever else it means, at least means being more human; it would not be virtuous if it did not. Sin, whatever… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
“I have observed that gentlemen suppose that the general legislature will do every thing mischievous they possibly can, and that they will… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular… — William James Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All things are possible to those who believe, less difficult to those who hope, more easy to those who love, and still… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken;… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece,… — Simonides Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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