Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the… — Homer Copy Share Image
“To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions,… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no greater wealth than Virtue, and no greater loss than to forget it. — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life. — Ruth Gordon Copy Share Image
To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ... — Emilie du Chatelet Copy Share Image
The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Chuang Tzu and Heidegger both emphasise the virtue of 'spontaneity' - a sort of mindful responsiveness to things as they are. It's… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities.… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Copy Share Image
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is… — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
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