“Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede… — Ovid Copy Share Image
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece,… — Simonides Copy Share Image
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Everything we do in life reflects through the virtues of a nation. For example if a nation is ruled through Fear, the… — Nynke Visser Copy Share Image
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man… — Confucius 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
Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured.… — Ann Radcliffe 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
“Virtue, whatever else it means, at least means being more human; it would not be virtuous if it did not. Sin, whatever… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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