Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
There's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, which I'm certainly not unsympathetic to, because as I keep saying, I come from… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
“Men have been taught that the highest virtue is not to achieve, but to give. Yet one cannot give that which has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“TO BE HAPPY, BE VIRTUOUS. THERE ARE ONLY TWO REASONS TO EVER DO ANYTHING; TO BE HAPPY, AND TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE… — Daniel Keys Moran Copy Share Image
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
“I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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