Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“The products your life must have could be in the form of an improved character and virtue.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure. — Martial Copy Share Image
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind,… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
With hearts that believe in Allah's will and predetermination, we have received the news about the martyrdom of the martyr. . .… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Your words bring me joy. Let the two of us unite to bring forth a world of peace and virtue. — Liu Bei Copy Share Image
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? — George Washington Copy Share Image
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Gratior est pulchro veniens de corpore virtus—Virtue appears peculiarly graceful when associated with beauty.” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy. — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind. — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
