If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim,… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power. — Robert Morrison MacIver Copy Share Image
The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue." It means "not." When I go to the store and they say:… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern… — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I like my clients. All of my clients say, "Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion." They really don't… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
“Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the… — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
