“Virtue is a system and men do heroic acts as part of the day's work and without self-consciousness.” — Charles H. Cooley Copy Share Image
“The other two are rich and noble; examples of virtue rarely make their home among people like that.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. — John Milton Copy Share Image
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ...… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you.… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Well, we have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all… — William Grant Bangerter Copy Share Image
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
![“[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it.And how do they leave? How is…” quote by Iain Pears](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5f8/iain-pears-9652_absurd_men-prefer-the-foolish-belief-and-the-pa_2814739.jpg)
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