No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any… — Plato Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade. — Euripides Copy Share Image
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions. — Mark Heard Copy Share Image
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
