“Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?” — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. — John Webster Copy Share Image
“It still stops my having any feeling of pride when people think well of what I do, for I say to myself:… — John Beevers Copy Share Image
The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an Art Won by Training and Habit. We do not act rightly Because we have Virtue and Excellence, But rather,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“For know that this is the command of God; and I believe that no greater good has ever happened in the state… — Plato Copy Share Image
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to… — John Tooby Copy Share Image
“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the electromagnetic spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted. — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“...virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock... I have given thee the power of flight without wings.” — The Koran Copy Share Image
“Truth cannot hide from virtue; virtue cannot hide from love; love cannot hide from God; and God cannot hide from truth.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a king without a crown, a scream without a sound, a master of disaster, and the sin to all religion... Always… — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about… — Baal Shem Tov Copy Share Image
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