Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
In their admonitions to us, the Founders were very clear that to maintain a republic like ours, to maintain a constitutional republic… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you,… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth… — Solon Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail… — Markus Heitz Copy Share Image
We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the… — I. A. R. Wylie Copy Share Image
Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“On Virtue – When people want to describe the hideousness of a person or object, they may use the phrase ‘ugly as… — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
![“[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/134/aristotle-78_add_the-virtues-cannot-exist-without-prudenc_3029435.png)
