My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who… — Thomas of Villanova Copy Share Image
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other… — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most… — Michel de Montaigne 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
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over. — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
