How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart! — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Sabine gave a Scoff. " I could be virtuous, if I wanted to be." In an incredulous tone, he said, "You don't… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events… — David Abram Copy Share Image
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“The sage has no mind of his own. He is aware of the needs of others. I am good to people who… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by the brilliancy… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
Each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the electromagnetic spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
