Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. —Albert Einstein” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
For me, patience is a virtue and the result is much more important than the road. — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation. — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Arguably, if you view a real barn in bright sunlight and close by, while fully alert and otherwise in good shape, then… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation. Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world;… — Simon Greenleaf 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
People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law. — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice. — Mencius Copy Share Image
sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
