People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze."… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
“Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of… — Ray A Copy Share Image
This is a moment in our history - that we can thank neoliberalism for - that has really destroyed what Hannah Arendt… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public… — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. — Sallust Copy Share Image
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful. — E. M. Forster 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
But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such… — Johann Georg Hamann 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 modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue,… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence,… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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