Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite. — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents? — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Virtue of true love is not finding the perfect person but loving the imperfect person perfectly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and… — Augustin Thierry Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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