Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
If good people would make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to… — James Ussher Copy Share Image
Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue...You must enlarge your soul towards each other. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
“We’re supposed to be doing the devil’s work and you’ve gone and contaminated it all with the whiff of virtue. I really… — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For Justine's conception of virtue is a specifically feminine one in that sexual abstinence plays a large part in it. In common… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a mindful awareness of the benefits of life. It's the greatest of virtues. Studies have linked the emotion with a… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
“In an incredulous tone, he said, "You don't know the meaning of virtue!" "Of course I do-it means your thong must be… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“sooner will there exist a body without a shadow than virtue unaccompanied by envy.” — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free. — Henry George Copy Share Image
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other. — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
