You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear… — Chris Heimerdinger Copy Share Image
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
“Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
I've been standing up against what I call the 'virtue signalling' from Justin Trudeau which actually ignores the real challenges of the… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
“I've come to believe that virtue isn’t a condition of character. It’s an elected action. It’s a choice we keep making, over… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“My hate is general, I detest all men; Some because they are wicked and do evil, Others because they tolerate the wicked,… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I love the youth of the Church. I have said again and again that I think we have never had a better… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
I am 21 years old and I still don't understand the concept of patience being a virtue... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man. — Philo Copy Share Image
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The ability to ask questions is a virtue and a trait of a free thinker.” — Sabina Nore Copy Share Image
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue — William Penn Copy Share Image
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image