Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth,… — William Watson Copy Share Image
Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify… — Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Copy Share Image
Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is… — Bonnie D. Parkin Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She would grace his home with her charm and beauty and she would make his bed joyous, all without ever having to… — Dorothy West Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“To the daughters of Eve, that they may teach men that love is not lechery, nor the simony of voluptuousness, but a… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces. — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
