A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the… — Jeanette Copy Share Image
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed,… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Some consider themselves great because they have vast territory, some because they have finance, some because they have arms, some because they… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
“Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?” — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility. — William Osler Copy Share Image
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
