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
“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
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
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. — Vernon Howard 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
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
In 'Reclaiming Virtue,' I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is 'affect.' Affect is simply… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To be successful in an endeavor inculcate the virtue of self esteem, confidence, never to give up and to stand up for… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“I’ve always felt that virtue lies in obtaining what is out of one’s reach, in living where one isn’t, in being more… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“In practice nobody cares if work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her… — Ayn Rand 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
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
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
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
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds… — Edmund Burke 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
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family. — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits? — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even… — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image
There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
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