There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would be ok if I found out for sure that if I am in any way superior to a wolf it… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by… — Kitty Ferguson Copy Share Image
Faith just doesn't have anything to do with what I'm doing as a scientist. It's nice if you can believe in God,… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
“While property continues to be pretty equally divided, and a considerable share of information pervades the community; the tendency of the people's… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant… — Thomas Goodwin Copy Share Image
“She looks very virtuous and very melancholy." "Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.” — Baroness Emma Orczy Copy Share Image
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image