I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude. — Delarivier Manley Copy Share Image
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride. — Eugenio Maria de Hostos Copy Share Image
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When you set man against the vastness of the cosmos, the only thing left is humility, a virtue he often discards in… — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ... — Emilie du Chatelet Copy Share Image
Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being… — Plato Copy Share Image
whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the… — Liu Bei Copy Share Image
Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues,… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues,… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
A new humanity will be born, fuller in conception and richer in experience and accomplishments in all fields. Joy of life will… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John… — Al Davis Copy Share Image
Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it. — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
