Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. — Plato Copy Share Image
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. — Euripides Copy Share Image
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue? — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. —Albert Einstein” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city… — Karen Kijewski Copy Share Image
You are not now to think what's best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter'd; and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues;… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses itself any reaction with regard to itself or its deeds. This virtue differs… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
“...for although we may fully respect our social conventions...it may unfortunately happen that , through the perversity of others we encounter only… — Marquis deSade Copy Share Image
The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media. — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
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