It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired;… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We ought to deal kindly with all, and to manifest those qualities which spring naturally from a heart tender and full of… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not… — Plato Copy Share Image
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it's modest. I… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
