Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail… — Markus Heitz Copy Share Image
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. — Plato Copy Share Image
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after… — Confucius Copy Share Image
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
