It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. — Wilhelm Wundt 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
In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
The virtue of losing is we get used to the fact that competing and to lose doesn't kill you. It just makes… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person,… — J. Martin Klotsche 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
How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society. — Rush Limbaugh 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
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at… — Antonio de Oliveira Salazar Copy Share Image