Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
“True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.” — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it . — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story.… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa… — Sallust Copy Share Image
There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of… — Thaddeus Golas 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
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
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