Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Surely I've explained to you before how much I enjoy watching the battle between love and virtue.” — Vicomte de Valmont Copy Share Image
He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that… — Denis Johnston Copy Share Image
Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The rain began to fall harder, and it distracted him, but he tried to pull himself back because he felt on the… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
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