Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.” — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact. — Confucius Copy Share Image
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Because he hates to praise by name He praises everybody. Vice And virtue must look much the same To one who calls… — Martial Copy Share Image
Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself. — J. William Schickel Copy Share Image
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will… — George Savile Copy Share Image
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend. If… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man… — Percy Dearmer Copy Share Image
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don't… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The love of esteem is the life and soul of society; it unites us to one another: I want your approbation, you… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“In practice nobody cares if work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
Familiarity with vice does not produce disgust, it produces attachment. — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice . — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
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