Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Your hand has two sides. Be cautious to open your palm to a person else it will reveal your deeds. — Khurshid Alam Copy Share Image
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor… — John Adams Copy Share Image
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the… — Hassan al-Banna Copy Share Image
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may… — Confucius Copy Share Image
We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“If one believes that God is up there in heaven, separate from the world, and is preparing a reward for you in… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld” — Gabriela Popa Copy Share Image
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom. — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice, — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to… — Robert Burns 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
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue. — Horace Copy Share Image
When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
“They think one enjoys oneself by an endless procession of new vices. For myself I prefer to have one or two vices,… — Alex Beecroft Copy Share Image
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay. — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. — David Hare Copy Share Image
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