Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune. — Marie Leszczynska Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Faith is trusting Jesus to lead us and going where He leads. What avails it to me to analyze Saratoga water, and… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them. — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
William McKinley has left us a priceless gift in the example of a useful and pure life, in his fidelity to public… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come… — Stephen Birmingham Copy Share Image
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful… — Buddha Copy Share Image
Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
