Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In order to take a nation to war, you have to believe mightily in the threat you are facing and the virtue… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.” — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Ever since I’d been old enough to know about virtue in a woman, it had seemed like a bull’s-eye painted on my… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite. — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that… — John Lee Hancock Copy Share Image
Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several… — Plato Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
