Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue. — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ... — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold. — Amitai Etzioni Copy Share Image
“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Of all our basic virtues, courage is the one that helps us to live exactly the way we want and provides the… — Robert Biswas-Diener Copy Share Image
It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Virtue is the product of good government. ‘Vices belong less to man, than to man badly governed.’ The political process, and the… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
