Virtue of true love is not finding the perfect person but loving the imperfect person perfectly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the… — John Gay Copy Share Image
“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over… — St. Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ...… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
