Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities.” — Annabel Lyon Copy Share Image
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues:… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue,… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are within us. Our learning starts as… — Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos Copy Share Image
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“The rain began to fall harder, and it distracted him, but he tried to pull himself back because he felt on the… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life. — John Cassian Copy Share Image
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Happiness and virtue react upon each other, - the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Sacrifice is a virtue that shows you truly love her and you would do anything to make her happy. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. — Horace Copy Share Image
Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
