“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean… — Fatty Arbuckle Copy Share Image
Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight.… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats… — Menander Copy Share Image
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will… — Horace Copy Share Image
Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Ideas, Mike Jones, an engineer at Google explained, were like babies - everything about their environment said they shouldn't exist. But they… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“No vices?’ ‘No vices.’ ‘Except men,’ Simon says. A tree branch waves in front of the living room window, blocking the sun,… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Much has already been said about the indisputable integrity of men such as AB Bardhan and Prakash Karat. So, why is it… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way… — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The virtue of losing is we get used to the fact that competing and to lose doesn't kill you. It just makes… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
![“Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]” quote by Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/117/horace-172_assuming_virtue-knowing-no-base-repulse-shines-wi_2769467.jpg)
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