The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness. — William James Copy Share Image
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
“Much of the Soul they talk, but all awry; And in themselves seek virtue; and to themselves All glory arrogate, to God… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them. — Mary Jo Weaver Copy Share Image
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“To feel these feelings at the right time, on the right occasion, towards the right people, for the right purpose and in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Only a wise man could see my people so clearly in so short a time. Only a ruthless one would say it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of… — Emil Ludwig Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
