What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The other two are rich and noble; examples of virtue rarely make their home among people like that.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a system and men do heroic acts as part of the day's work and without self-consciousness.” — Charles H. Cooley Copy Share Image
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats… — Menander Copy Share Image
If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean… — Fatty Arbuckle Copy Share Image
I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.… — Janice Rogers Brown Copy Share Image
Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
