The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you.” — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“Without virtue and training, Aristotle observed, “it is hard to bear the results of good fortune suitably.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for… — Marcel Achard Copy Share Image
“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“God Himself is the rule and mode of virtue. Our faith is measured by divine truth, our hope by the greatness of… — St. Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Truth is the world's oldest saint; virtue is the world's oldest sage.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
