Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind. — Homer Copy Share Image
The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it… — Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Copy Share Image
Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of… — John W. Henry Copy Share Image
“You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
He is the way, the truth, and the light, and no one can come back into the presence of our Father in… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“You should not be esteemed by others if you have no real inner virtue. People here in Japan esteem others on the… — Dogen Zenji Copy Share Image
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“The word "virtue" was once found in so many ancient quotes, yet now seems lost in our modern lives.” — Robert Colton Copy Share Image
Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“If you cannot extol the virtue of your own creation, how can you expect others to?” — Lynda Bester Copy Share Image
“A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches. — Horace Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The ability to ask questions is a virtue and a trait of a free thinker.” — Sabina Nore Copy Share Image
There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
