Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. — Confucius Copy Share Image
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Trey scoffed. "Between you and me, Brayden's probably the last guy in the world you have to worry about. I think he's… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance… — John Milton Copy Share Image
