“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. Militarily. They also lead economically… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. — Homer Copy Share Image
As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge,… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Remember, the left corrupts everything, folks. The Democrat Party, the left corrupts every institution. They politicize it, and by virtue of that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
