Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and… — Plautus Copy Share Image
Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue. — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and… — Waller R Newell Copy Share Image
“An essential virtue is humility. … The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others… — Ching Hai Copy Share Image
Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink… — Plato Copy Share Image
Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Zeal is the great desire to make God known, loved, and served, and thus to bring knowledge of salvation to others. Activity… — Basil Moreau Copy Share Image
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one. — Aelred of Rievaulx Copy Share Image
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life,… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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