I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss — John Milton Copy Share Image
Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: -… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy… — George Lillo Copy Share Image
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted. — Eusebius Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right .” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy. — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
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