Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The hell with virtue. I've figured out the mechanics of her dress.” — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
“Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.” — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“A vice is a thing which may be applauded in moderation but becomes horrific in overuse.” — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“The world is ours, whenever we choose to claim it, by virtue and grace of the fact that ours is the Morality… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for… — Plato Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“The medieval world then is one in which not only is the scheme of the virtues enlarged beyond an Aristotelian perspective, but… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
