“A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze.… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you… — Alexandre Dumas 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
Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking. — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
