It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.” — Lolly Daskal Copy Share Image
Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be… — Horace Copy Share Image
The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for… — oscar wilde Copy Share Image
However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of… — David Truman Copy Share Image
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue;… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“The virtue of silence is highly commendable, and will contribute greatly to your ease and prosperity. The best proof of wisdom is… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“The Triumph of Goodness" If only the reality was like cartoons like teenager books and stories or like the countless movies and… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
I would be ok if I found out for sure that if I am in any way superior to a wolf it… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of… — Pope Agapetus I Copy Share Image
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made. — George Sand Copy Share Image
A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression. — Lawrence Fertig Copy Share Image
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness . — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss — John Milton Copy Share Image
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
