Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.] — Horace Copy Share Image
The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues -… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is salvation - happiness and virtue - in beauty. I would define beauty in this context as a kind of richness,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I have observed that gentlemen suppose that the general legislature will do every thing mischievous they possibly can, and that they will… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue. — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it.… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue. — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
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