“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share Image
God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity. — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? — Confucius Copy Share Image
Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues. — William Temple Sr Copy Share Image
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star… His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the… — Horace Copy Share Image
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
As you climb the mountains of life, stay on the path of virtue. There will be others to help you- your parents,… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. — Theodor Billroth Copy Share Image
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“276. "He shall not feed on either earth or pelf, but upon wisdom, and on love and virtue.” — Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Canto 1 Copy Share Image
Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in… — Martin Yan Copy Share Image
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“One who calls virtue into being is one who has what it takes to make a success.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
Virtuous behavior is when one's motivations are aligned with one's reasoned aims: to do what one knows is best and to do… — Doctor Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
