If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to… — James Ussher Copy Share Image
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city… — Karen Kijewski Copy Share Image
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trump is not some random, embittered person in a parking lot - he's the president of the United States. By virtue of… — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice. — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue. — Horace Copy Share Image
I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man… — Percy Dearmer Copy Share Image
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image