The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair) — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and… — Lynn G. Robbins Copy Share Image
It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Loyalty saves us from the self-advantaging compromising of important relations - such as friendship, marital and professional commitments, group memberships, and so… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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