Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The world is ours, whenever we choose to claim it, by virtue and grace of the fact that ours is the Morality… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“A vice is a thing which may be applauded in moderation but becomes horrific in overuse.” — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make… — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things, together… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share Image
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may… — Eva Cox Copy Share Image
The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
