In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“It is not that a man of virtue is honored because of high office, but rather that the office is honored because… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act. — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue. — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“You should not be esteemed by others if you have no real inner virtue. People here in Japan esteem others on the… — Dogen Zenji Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue,… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine. — Rich Karlgaard Copy Share Image
