To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Being insincerely sincere to expect sincerity is the virtue, most of live with… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues. — William Temple Sr Copy Share Image
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can… — Hasidic Copy Share Image
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
“When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? — Confucius Copy Share Image
God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity. — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee! — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue. — David Hume Copy Share Image
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“276. "He shall not feed on either earth or pelf, but upon wisdom, and on love and virtue.” — Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Canto 1 Copy Share Image
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in… — Martin Yan Copy Share Image
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
