When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen,… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute… — Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne Copy Share Image
The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to… — John Tooby Copy Share Image
“Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts, not according to changing impressions and moods.… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to… — Samuel Parr Copy Share Image
'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
