Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other. — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free. — Henry George Copy Share Image
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Forgive me this my virtue; For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg- Yea, curb… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In that moment, Lux felt complete for the first time. He hadn’t even realized anything was missing until he met her, but… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Such attributes as virtue or intelligence aren't additive. It's absurd to maintain that two evil people can somehow be more virtuous than… — L Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The 1960s was probably the first time in history that young people were recognized as a big group of consumers and as… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
