Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by… — James Stenson Copy Share Image
If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Do away with negative thoughts about yourself and begin a path of self belief, self-discovery, and self-acceptance. What we think, determines our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise… — David Farr Copy Share Image
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“For present-day politicians there are only political points to be made from such statements, and the larger the sin the larger the… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
