The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrage of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. — Bernard De Bonnard Copy Share Image
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
You are not now to think what's best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter'd; and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. — Moliere Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“Virtue - to be good and just - Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous… — Julius Bate Copy Share Image
An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride,… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several… — Plato Copy Share Image
Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
![“You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/953/fanny-burney-7403_devil_you-have-sensible-women-here-in-england_2177257.jpg)
