Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The aim of the receipts may be virtue, sin, much closer to the work you do — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Some situations may push you to become desperate but don't forget the virtue of patience. Keep practicing it. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. — Saadi Copy Share Image
You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous,… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is… — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
“Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
We're all in the race game, so to speak, either consciously or unconsciously. We can overtly support white-supremacist racial projects. We can… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Every perfection in this life has some imperfection mixed with it and no learning of ours is without some darkness. Humble knowledge… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind. — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue. — Socrates Copy Share Image
It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name? — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . . — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
