The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
'24' and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“Humility is the only soil in which virtue takes root; a lack of humility is the explanation of every defect and failure.… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
“Evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face. While virtue is venerable… — john steinbeck Copy Share Image
For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever… — Paul Elmer More Copy Share Image
“Faith hath an incarnating virtue, as they say of some strengthening meat; it feeds upon the promise, and that ‘is perfect, converting’—or… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind,… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“To feel these feelings at the right time, on the right occasion, towards the right people, for the right purpose and in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Only a wise man could see my people so clearly in so short a time. Only a ruthless one would say it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of… — Emil Ludwig Copy Share Image
A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
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