Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. — Bernard De Bonnard Copy Share Image
Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare. — Agnes Strickland Copy Share Image
Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. — John Milton Copy Share Image
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be. — James Jones Copy Share Image
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“Virtue is not vouchsafed to a soul unless that soul has been trained and taught, and by unremitting practice brought to perfection.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass… — Andreas Libavius Copy Share Image
Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers… — Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis Copy Share Image
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by… — William Greider Copy Share Image
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“A substantial good drawn from a real evil, is of the same benefit to society as if drawn from a virtue; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted… — Paula Polk Lillard Copy Share Image
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