Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“The superior person cultivates virtue by bringing about revolution within himself.” — I Ching Copy Share Image
Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm,… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori… — Horace Copy Share Image
Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly… — Harold Perrineau Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by… — William Greider Copy Share Image
It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. — Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury Copy Share Image
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