If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice"… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of… — Simonides of Ceos Copy Share Image
Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions,… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose… — John Donne Copy Share Image
It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to… — Larry King Copy Share Image
Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before… — William Inge Copy Share Image
To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
