The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media. — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system. — James Richardson Copy Share Image
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Virtue, whatever else it means, at least means being more human; it would not be virtuous if it did not. Sin, whatever… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“In practice nobody cares if work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The love of esteem is the life and soul of society; it unites us to one another: I want your approbation, you… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
