In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Knowldeg is the mother of all virtue all vice proceeds from ignorence — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Live a life of virtue. Remember, yesterday you were not here, tomorrow you won’t be here.” — Vinita Kinra Copy Share Image
Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers. — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Men and women of integrity understand intrinsically that theirs is the precious right to hold their heads in the sunlight of truth,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I think the chemistry on the Orange set is extraordinary and I’m going to risk and say this: I think by virtue… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more… — Mike Aquilina Copy Share Image
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“° I have sought the good, and not the hurt of our young people. I have desired their truest honor and happiness,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment… — Dennis Kimbro Copy Share Image
He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Faith is the foundation of every virtue that strengthens marriage. — L. Whitney Clayton Copy Share Image
