“... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over. — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Vice is a wonderful thing," Catherine said. "The people who go in for it seem to have good taste about it.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You came empty handed, but of course that is not up to the world, will be with you'r Sin virtue, which will… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The end of learning, he said, is to “repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image