Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
“Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible. — Jonathan V. Last Copy Share Image
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility. — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind,… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Whoever with fear of God corrects and directs a sinner gains virtue for himself, that of opposition to sin. But whoever insults… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of… — John Dee Copy Share Image
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