I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Do What Thou Wilt; because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur… — François Rabelais Copy Share Image
The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue. — Charles Dudley Warner 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
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of… — Emil Ludwig Copy Share Image
A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
THE PATH IS exceedingly vast. From ancient times to the present day, even the greatest sages were unable to perceive and comprehend… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think the notion...that liquidity is this - of tradable common stock - is a great contributor to capitalism - I think… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image