Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind. — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. — Saadi Copy Share Image
The aim of the receipts may be virtue, sin, much closer to the work you do — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Some situations may push you to become desperate but don't forget the virtue of patience. Keep practicing it. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich 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
The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek… — Lucan Copy Share Image
In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by… — James Stenson Copy Share Image
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of… — John Dee Copy Share Image
“In what resides the most characteristic Virtue of humanity? In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some… — Giles Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness… — Rajneesh 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
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure. — Martial Copy Share Image
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Your words bring me joy. Let the two of us unite to bring forth a world of peace and virtue. — Liu Bei Copy Share Image
Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? — George Washington Copy Share Image
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Gratior est pulchro veniens de corpore virtus—Virtue appears peculiarly graceful when associated with beauty.” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy. — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image