Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues. — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“ Elaine: He saved my life twice. He's the only grown-up I know who keeps his promises. Michael: Yes. It is a… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Everything we do in life reflects through the virtues of a nation. For example if a nation is ruled through Fear, the… — Nynke Visser Copy Share Image
The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We are His children in Very deed, having been born of Him in the spirit, and we have inherited the very attributes… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue. — George Mason Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting;… — Euell Gibbons Copy Share Image
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