The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. — Stockard Channing Copy Share Image
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.” — Travis Berketa Copy Share Image
“The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.” — Loraine Despres Copy Share Image
We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in… — Louis XVI of France Copy Share Image
“Bring things to life and nurture them, But have no thoughts of possession. Act without relying on anything; Bring things along, but… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
I try and make it to the word exactly what I said four years ago and what I said was that those… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“...every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized — Girish Karnad Copy Share Image
Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments. — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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