Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.” — Lolly Daskal Copy Share Image
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“The virtue of good health will increasingly become a priority of the incoming culture because it will be the gauge of the… — Master Del Pe Copy Share Image
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
“A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Yet the same gradual decay to which, after a certain age, all the language of psychology seems liable, has been at work… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Your favourite quality in a woman?: Thought. Your favourite virtue?: Faithfulness.” — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
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