Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained? — John Milton Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share Image
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality… — Alexis Carrel 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
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of… — Honore de Balzac 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
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
