When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan 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
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. But overdo it, and no… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective. — William Penn Copy Share Image
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
