Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine. — Plutarch 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
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . — Aristotle 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
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. — Henry Bolingbroke 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
People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble,… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“We are good not in virtue of what we are but in virtue of what we are not, like darkness lit up… — Kathryn Tanner Copy Share Image
We ought to deal kindly with all, and to manifest those qualities which spring naturally from a heart tender and full of… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“And this, too, affords no small occasion for anxieties - if you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts, not according to changing impressions and moods.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the… — William James Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man… — George Will Copy Share Image
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a priest, kindness is a bishop, faith is a pope, and love is a religion.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . . — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!” — Diogenes Laërtius 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
You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. — Maya Angelou 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
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
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts. — Samuel Johnson 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
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
I am 21 years old and I still don't understand the concept of patience being a virtue... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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