“Balance is more than light and dark, more than sin and virtue.” — Julie Anne Addicott Copy Share Image
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
“In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.” — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal; they had been starved of the knowledge… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 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
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job,… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
“I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly--… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Her mind, shaped so long before my own, was for me the equivalent of what had been offered me by the behaviour… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We've so, so fallen for the premise that only government can do certain things. But then when we get around to privatizing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
