Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when… — Catherine Weaver Copy Share Image
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can… — Hasidic Copy Share Image
Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power… — Trita Parsi Copy Share Image
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters,… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
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