“I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows… — Horace Copy Share Image
'24' and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions. — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Thirdly, the gentleman warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick… — Judith Martin 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
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you… — Marilyn Monroe 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 wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to… — Han Fei Copy Share Image
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image