The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings. — Melford Spiro Copy Share Image
The thing I've discovered that is a help is that there isn't a simple virtue or a simple vice. They're always connected.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
“Virtue - to be good and just - Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Our virtues are the quicksands, which show themselves at calm and low water; but let the waves arise and the winds buffet… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of… — Alberto Manguel 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
Wasn't it Bertrand Russell who used the phrase 'The superior virtue of the oppressed'? There is always this temptation amongst people that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“While property continues to be pretty equally divided, and a considerable share of information pervades the community; the tendency of the people's… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as… — Socrates 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
I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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