I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Excellence is the quality of being outstanding. Excellence is ever-growing personal and collective best To excel is virtue of a person with… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial… — Laozi Copy Share Image
True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and… — Christopher Kelk Ingold Copy Share Image
“And so sovereign Providence has often produced a remarkable effect--evil men making other evil men good. For some, when they think they… — Boethius Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring,… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice… — William James Copy Share Image
Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a… — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
