One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.” — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is… — Bonnie D. Parkin Copy Share Image
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
“It is undoubtedly the case that the practice of the virtues makes one happier. We’ve somewhat lost sight of that essential truth,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“The virtues of valor and love of liberty; the only virtues which can have place among an uncivilized people, where justice and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill.… — Barton Seaver Copy Share Image
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Do you think that the man has any thought of mending his ways who counts over his vices as if they were… — Seneca Copy Share Image
I'd applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that,… — Greta Gerwig 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
A real intelligent or brilliant or intellectual or genius or wise is always nice to distinguish and differentiate effortlessly the virtues from… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“True spiritual virtues can have no opposite, but they can wear masks and costumes. Joy often masquerades as anger; innocence often dresses… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“Galatians 5:22-23 describes the fruit of the Spirit, which is "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Notice the… — Keri Wyatt Kent Copy Share Image
“The Man of Power is one who presides— By persuasion. He uses no demeaning words or behavior, does not manipulate others, appeals… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
“The Death of Allegory I am wondering what became of all those tall abstractions that used to pose, robed and statuesque, in… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“If we lived long enough to see the results of our actions, it may be that those who call themselves good would… — Oscar Wilde - The Critic as Artist Copy Share Image
“Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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