If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Many times people ask me, "What is sin and what is virtue? And how to decide?" If you decide your decision will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed.… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. — Ovid Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“People love superheroes. It's true we're impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn. But the fact is,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve. — Agnes of Rome Copy Share Image
I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
