The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd… — John Bowring Copy Share Image
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. — Sallust Copy Share Image
In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede… — Ovid Copy Share Image
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
“Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad,… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
