One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Modesty is virtue which enhances charm of ones personality & get up. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern. — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and… — William James Copy Share Image
The most passionate people are rarely known for being virtuous; but the most virtuous people are always described as passionate. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression. — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning.… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“In what resides the most characteristic Virtue of humanity? In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some… — Giles Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of… — John Dee Copy Share Image
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding. — Dominique Bouhours Copy Share Image
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
