Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Truth is not a science. Virtue is not a faith. Love is not a religion.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“What if virtue, work, all our striving and sweat was simply not enough to make the animal man a happy creature?” — Darrin M. McMahon Copy Share Image
Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues. — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.” — Susan Andersen Copy Share Image
Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life. — David Cottrell Copy Share Image
Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice. — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it… — Maria McCann Copy Share Image
“there is no virtue in doing something for someone else when it’s something you also want to do. That’s merely being helpful,… — Ann B. Ross Copy Share Image
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim,… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If, being cowardly, conceited,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“What is it that constitutes virtue, Mrs. Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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