statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Your words bring me joy. Let the two of us unite to bring forth a world of peace and virtue. — Liu Bei Copy Share Image
Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be… — Christopher Jones Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek… — Lucan Copy Share Image
Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . . — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
