ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude. — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wheel of… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
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