Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be… — Horace Copy Share Image
Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue,… — Amanda Quick Copy Share Image
Just as we won the Cold War in part by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
When you live the virtues - when you live in that place of God-consciousness - all these rules we have about cause… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
According to great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one thing: that is awareness. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a form or expertise or skill, the knowledge of how to live well in every way which shapes the whole… — Patrick Ussher Copy Share Image
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope,… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue. — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings. — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.” — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
