I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There's something really interesting in the way you shy away from virtuous touch," he said. "I don't mind the virtue part. It's… — Frankie Rose Copy Share Image
The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you.… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
Well, we have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Humility, the place of entire dependence upon God, is from the very nature of things the first duty and the highest virtue… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged… — Rudolf Hiferding 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
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind… A new… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State...… — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face… — Yi Sun-sin Copy Share Image
