Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift… — David Hume Copy Share Image
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself. — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that… — Edward Augustus Bowles Copy Share Image
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal. — Democritus Copy Share Image
I have always believed in seeking happiness in the happiness of others and the virtue of seeking God's pleasure in helping His… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience… — Carl Hilty Copy Share Image
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
