There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Wasn't it Bertrand Russell who used the phrase 'The superior virtue of the oppressed'? There is always this temptation amongst people that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would… — Francis Grund Copy Share Image
“The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life. — David Cottrell Copy Share Image
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue] — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it… — Maria McCann Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
![“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” quote by Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8c8/oscar-wilde-16_character_disobedience-in-the-eyes-of-any-one-who_2197666.jpg)
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![“What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ae6/anonymous-1_boundaries_what-is-love-of-one-s-country-is-it-hate_2207257.jpg)
