Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up. — Hilda Scott Copy Share Image
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for… — Estelle Ramey Copy Share Image
What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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