I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it.” — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love." Mattis Tannhouser” — Tim Willocks Copy Share Image
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the… — Liu Bei Copy Share Image
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story.… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being… — Plato Copy Share Image
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa… — Sallust Copy Share Image
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
“...virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock... I have given thee the power of flight without wings.” — The Koran Copy Share Image
I'm a king without a crown, a scream without a sound, a master of disaster, and the sin to all religion... Always… — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about… — Baal Shem Tov Copy Share Image
Being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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