“A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.” — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Karl Fried Muller Copy Share Image
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves… — Philip D. Reed Copy Share Image
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be… — Charles Dudley Warner 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
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“For, not seeing the whole truth, they could not attain to perfect virtue. Some considering nature as incorrupt, others as incurable, they… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who… — Al-Shafi‘i Copy Share Image
The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument. — Mencius Copy Share Image
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. — Simone Weil 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
“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
