Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“It is not that a man of virtue is honored because of high office, but rather that the office is honored because… — Boethius Copy Share Image
The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“If one believes that God is up there in heaven, separate from the world, and is preparing a reward for you in… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
