This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Doing something well is a virtue. Even in school, children learn a concept thoroughly before moving on to the next assignment. They… — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind… A new… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State...… — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage… — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know… — Plato Copy Share Image
Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power… — Marshall Field Copy Share Image
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“The virtue of good health will increasingly become a priority of the incoming culture because it will be the gauge of the… — Master Del Pe Copy Share Image
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament &… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The… — Walter Russell Bowie Copy Share Image
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous… — Julius Bate Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
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