“Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping… — Rollo May 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
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know.… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem,… — George Washington 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
Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important… — Fidel Castro 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
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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![“[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the…” quote by Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a32/aldous-huxley-97_celebrate_technology-has-tended-to-devaluate-the-t_1768237.jpg)
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