“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue — John Adams Copy Share Image
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion. — Major Owens Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Every human on the planet is descended from both slaves and slave owners. What makes Britain unusual is not that we engaged… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have… — John Locke Copy Share Image
My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. — Boethius Copy Share Image
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment. — John Gibbons Copy Share Image
Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Trustworthiness is an innate virtue and you can't buy it with any price nor enforces or impose it. It has to come… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Courage is most important virtue, one is blessed with. It is the courage which makes you stand alone even in storm of… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“On Perseverance – Persistence is admirable. Stubbornness is stupid. Just remember: the latter two even begin with the same three letters.” — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
“Truth is a saint. Courage is a warrior. Virtue is a priest. Prudence is a sage.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues. — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
