Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue — William Penn Copy Share Image
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice. — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man… — Confucius Copy Share Image
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Don't be too severe in criticizing people's faults; consider how much they can bear. Don't be too lofty in enjoining virtue, so… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
...the cross saves completely, or not at all. Our faith does not divide the work of salvation between itself and the cross.… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue,… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
