“Truth is a saint. Courage is a warrior. Virtue is a priest. Prudence is a sage.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits? — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even… — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image
Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I think the notion...that liquidity is this - of tradable common stock - is a great contributor to capitalism - I think… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Live your life at your own will.Not caring what other expects from you.Strive to prove your virtue & prove yourself better than… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“Blessed is he who learns how to engage in inquiry, with no impulse to harm his countrymen or to pursue wrongful actions,… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an… — African Spir Copy Share Image
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Would it be better if religions were to disappear? I have no idea. Since I do not have any confidence in the… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience… — Carl Hilty Copy Share Image
There is also something excellent in every audience,the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness — Confucius Copy Share Image
I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create.” — Robert Pack Copy Share Image
If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to… — James Ussher Copy Share Image
It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God — Brigit of Kildare Copy Share Image
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective. — William Penn Copy Share Image
“To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be. — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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