True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human;… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it. — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
“We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is… — Judas Iscariot Copy Share Image
As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue! — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious… — John Milton Copy Share Image
One of the real dangers of loyalty is that it may become associated with certain types of group-think, chauvinism, jingoism, and thus… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue! — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love." Mattis Tannhouser” — Tim Willocks Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
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