Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humanity is a Virtue all preach, none practice, and yet every body is content to hear — John Selden Copy Share Image
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin;… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior… — Confucius Copy Share Image
. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. We… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. - Psalms 31:30 — God Copy Share Image
“[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue.” — George Turnbull Copy Share Image
Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon. — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew.” — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question. — Jacquelyn Frank Copy Share Image
I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting. — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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