If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else. — George Marsden Copy Share Image
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“And yet by nature the servants are born free; for no man is by nature a slave.” — Philo of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by… — William Booth Copy Share Image
The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“that, when it comes to humanity, “the perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated by the degree of… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason. — Andre Chenier Copy Share Image
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Bible places supreme value in the thought life. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," Solomon wrote. Jesus… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up. — Hilda Scott Copy Share Image
“And what is faith, love, virtue unassay'd alone, without exterior help sustained?” — John Milton Copy Share Image
“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune monent.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;” — Molière Copy Share Image
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair) — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
“True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)” — Emery Lee Copy Share Image
Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long… — Harry Graham Copy Share Image
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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