Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue — William Penn Copy Share Image
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. — Seneca the Younger 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
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And… — Moliere Copy Share Image
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Why should I choose to divide my ethics into four rather than six? Why should I define virtue as four, or two,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing… Thinking back on it all, it must have been the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“In Confucian thought, individuals practice moral virtue both by restraining themselves and pursuing their own interests. This is a dual push-and-pull process.… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good… — Charles Dickens 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
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. — John Dryden 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
“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
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. — Henry Bolingbroke 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
“Virtue is a priest, kindness is a bishop, faith is a pope, and love is a religion.” — Matshona Dhliwayo 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
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
