Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Persistence, patience and perseverance are virtue of person with strong positive attitude. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself… — Roman Baldorioty de Castro Copy Share Image
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle! Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
Virtues are habits of mind, heart, and behavior. They develop through deliberate practice. Forming of a persons character lies in their own… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility… Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as… — Paul Pruyser Copy Share Image
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts. — Confucius Copy Share Image
He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When one's unconscious is full of vice, nothing realizes inner potential like hypocrisy.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth. — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer. — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility. — William Osler Copy Share Image
A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
