Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Every conceivable vice, it seemed, had a society in New York dedicated to its prevention.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They said Life is a virtue. But they never mentioned that it was gonna hurt you. — Mary Gaohlee Thao Copy Share Image
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves. — Michel Quoist Copy Share Image
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away… — Frederic Mistral Copy Share Image
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored,… — Jon Lord Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she… — Anna Wickham Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
