The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To Love God Is The Greatest Virtue; To Loved By God Is The Greatest Of Blessings... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly--… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] ” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Even as the needle that directs the hour, (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power Of hidden Nature, points upon the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches. — Horace Copy Share Image
The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our reputation is shadow of our character, and the shadow is of our virtue and values which we inherit. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I… — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
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