To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. — Confucius Copy Share Image
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
“Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other’s… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge… — Horace Copy Share Image
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
No one benefits from us not taking credit for our successes. There is no virtue in allowing kudos to go unclaimed or… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact,… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“You can fuck anyone but when it comes to making love your virtue will be questioned.” — Ankur singh yadav Copy Share Image
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“You're perfectly safe. Emily is here to protect your virtue." "That's too bad.” — Kady Cross Copy Share Image
