“FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“A little less vice is virtuousness in a very vicious heart” — Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade Copy Share Image
Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. — James Gibbons Copy Share Image
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace. Grace is a little girl Who would not wash her face.” — Dick King-Smith Copy Share Image
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“But I was born in the image of God, a man, a creator, with power of life and death, a father, blessed… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“In the sense of worldly advantage, it no longer signified whether people thought of him as having been an authentic man of… — Marisa Linton Copy Share Image
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment’s forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
I look forward serenely to the course of events, confident that the Fountain of supreme wisdom and virtue will provide for the… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise! — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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