What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge… — Horace Copy Share Image
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING, because it needs nothing. Production comes out of desire, production comes because you are imperfect. You create something… — Osho Copy Share Image
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Every man is responsible for defending every woman and every child. When the male no longer takes this role, when he no… — James Williams Copy Share Image
By virtue of the standing and prestige of President Ben-Zvi, some 3,000 manuscripts originating from Arab lands, some of them of major… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
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