Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“I may have mentioned patience wasn't one of my virtues. Actually, I didn't have many virtues but patience definitely wasn't one of… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“There is no virtue in poverty and illness. we all have been created to be healthy and wealthy with more than enough… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can… — Hasidic Copy Share Image
Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power… — Trita Parsi Copy Share Image
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
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