“Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.” — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue! — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Stranger, what e’er thy land or creed or race, Here rest awhile, there’s virtue in the place.” - Anonymous A” — Sigrid Vansandt Copy Share Image
No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad,… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Valour and glory are a ponderous virtue. As to say, both virtues are stoic traits. Two words, that are complex but these… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The rediscovery of the value of one's baptism is the basis of the missionary commitment of every Christian, because we see in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not… — Plato Copy Share Image
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
