Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue -… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content. — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend. If… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation. Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon 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
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune. — Marie Leszczynska Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Faith is trusting Jesus to lead us and going where He leads. What avails it to me to analyze Saratoga water, and… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them. — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
William McKinley has left us a priceless gift in the example of a useful and pure life, in his fidelity to public… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
