But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them. — Mary Jo Weaver Copy Share Image
“Much of the Soul they talk, but all awry; And in themselves seek virtue; and to themselves All glory arrogate, to God… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“...if I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought… — Mohammed Naseehu Ali Copy Share Image
Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen,... even if… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No person, no matter how clever and deceitful, can indefinitely hide a character that is rotten and out of tune with God.… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What is it that constitutes virtue, Mrs. Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness. — William James Copy Share Image
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake. — Alexander Pope 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
[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility. — Max Ernst 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
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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