Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice. — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort. — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over. — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured.… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Associated with gratitude is virtue. I think they are related because he who is disposed to shun virtue lacks appreciation of life,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“...Though exposed to the same anguish, virtue and vice are not the same thing. For as the same fire causes gold to… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
