Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart. — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste. — Joseph Chenier Copy Share Image
“(since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has no shine and makes its home in a dark cave amid cave dwellers, some… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.” — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
“Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.” — Tobin Wilson Copy Share Image
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled. — John Milton Copy Share Image
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece,… — Simonides Copy Share Image
“Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
