Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“She compensated for this sense of inferiority by making fun of everything. I did not notice it then, but she never made… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“"When you lose your compassion for those in need, when you cast aside your capacity to care, when you ignore the plight… — F. Paquette Copy Share Image
For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Tolkien understands the odd danger posed by virtue cut off from the Good. Over and again, he demonstrates his fundamental conviction that… — Ralph C. Wood Copy Share Image
Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
It's a time when a lot of principle virtues are being tested. Do we still believe in the truth? Do we still… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices… — William Law Copy Share Image
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“«It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,» said Alfred.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
We expect to foster a conservative governing philosophy consisting of limited government and respect for traditional American virtues. — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
“Christ-like virtues are a beacon of hope in the classroom, inspiring students to persevere through life's challenges with faith, resilience, and an… — Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo Copy Share Image
“The virtues therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Behold how each of your virtues is covetous of the highest place; each wants your whole spirit to be her herald, it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fruits doesn't fall far from the tree but there seeds can go places and wherever they go by their virtues they leave… — Indira Mukhopadhyay Copy Share Image
Valour and glory are a ponderous virtue. As to say, both virtues are stoic traits. Two words, that are complex but these… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.” — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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