There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know.… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The rediscovery of the value of one's baptism is the basis of the missionary commitment of every Christian, because we see in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. We… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. — Horace Copy Share Image
Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your… — Laozi Copy Share Image
And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media. — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
