If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death. — Socrates Copy Share Image
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue. — Plato Copy Share Image
friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.” — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for… — John Galt Copy Share Image
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Independent films will probably kill themselves off by virtue of their own success. With a crossover hit like PULP FICTION, the criteria… — James Schamus Copy Share Image
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
I did think Justice [Antony] Kennedy's opinion on Lawrence was critical to that because it really, what Lawrence in one sense was,… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
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