Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in… — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Of all earthly blessings, I place Liberty in the first rank, and of course, consider the obligation to defend and preserve it,… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands,… — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact,… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean,… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
“Hei mihi quod tanto virtus perfusa decore non habet eternos inviolata dies' Alas, that so much virtue suffused with beauty should not… — Nicholas Hilliard Copy Share Image
I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . .… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“…dazzled by the shine of their own virtue, a shine that might not last (since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but… — William Osler Copy Share Image
. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other… — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
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