Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“all the works of perfect Christian virtue spring from love and have no other objective than to arrive at love. [19” — The Catholic Church Copy Share Image
The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages. — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget… — Arthur Twining Hadley Copy Share Image
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
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