We are His children in Very deed, having been born of Him in the spirit, and we have inherited the very attributes… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness -… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent:… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite inexplicable peculiarity. Both were convinced… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We underestimate the value of patience. It is possible that people might sometimes interrupt our meditation sessions or Dharma study, but they… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap… — Tana French Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
“Aristotle’s ideal man, however, is no mere metaphysician. He does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues.… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“The importance of falling in love lies not in how it feels, but in what it perceives. And as always with our… — Phillip Cary Copy Share Image
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr Copy Share Image
It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
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