Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern. — John Fletcher 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
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
Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The notion of good and bad is only in people's minds for there is only virtue and excess. Happiness and wisdom are… — Insidious Nocturne Copy Share Image
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He is the way, the truth, and the light, and no one can come back into the presence of our Father in… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue. — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding. — Dominique Bouhours Copy Share Image
