If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue. — Plato Copy Share Image
Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and… — Christopher Kelk Ingold Copy Share Image
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. — Luc de Clapiers 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
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. — Confucius Copy Share Image
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association… — Socrates Copy Share Image
To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make… — Plato Copy Share Image
To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
