The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Dogs are quick to show their affection. They never pout, they never bear a grudge. They never run away from home when… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another… — Thomas Gold Copy Share Image
Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, "I haven't yet played the person staying home,… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
“Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I look forward serenely to the course of events, confident that the Fountain of supreme wisdom and virtue will provide for the… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
“Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue” — Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos Copy Share Image
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
