The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
The seven sacred teachings: love, respect, courage, honesty, wisdom, humility, truth. These are the seven virtues that lead to a full and… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even… — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent… — Plato 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
The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking. — Steve Goodman Copy Share Image
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas. — Dorothy Nevill Copy Share Image
Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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