If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
...Now since you are celebrating the holy Pascha, you should know, brethren, what the Pascha is. Pascha means the crossing-over, and so… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by.… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps… — John Brown Copy Share Image
“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!” — Diogenes Laërtius Copy Share Image
Open yourself to an encounter with heaven, be as a little child. Release your desire to the winds of the universe. Trust… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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