Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Illumination by the Spirit is the endless end of every virtue. — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless. — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
No one benefits from us not taking credit for our successes. There is no virtue in allowing kudos to go unclaimed or… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Human hypocrisy should be respected as virtue is not worth the effort.” — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit (Whom virtue unites, death cannot separate)” — The Scottish Rite Fourteenth degree Copy Share Image
I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age,… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What… — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool;… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world -… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Innocence is only a virtue, lass, when it is temporary. You must pass from it to look back and recognize its unsullied… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
