Much has already been said about the indisputable integrity of men such as AB Bardhan and Prakash Karat. So, why is it… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The virtue of losing is we get used to the fact that competing and to lose doesn't kill you. It just makes… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all… — William Grant Bangerter Copy Share Image
“My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The virtues of valor and love of liberty; the only virtues which can have place among an uncivilized people, where justice and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more glorious—nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of… — Antoine François Prévost Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
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![“[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it.And how do they leave? How is…” quote by Iain Pears](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f8/iain-pears-9652_absurd_men-prefer-the-foolish-belief-and-the-pa_2814739.png)
![“My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (...) Response [by Lady Rectitude]: "Fair sweet friend, have you not yet heard the saying that the fool sees well enough a small cut in the face of his…” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be5/christine-de-pizan-13257_cliches_my-lady-you-certainly-tell-me-about-wond_2807471.png)
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