The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought,… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image
“Hypocrisy is said to be the homage that vice pays to virtue,—decorum is the outward expression of that homage; and if this… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities.… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Copy Share Image
Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language -… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“Those with enlightened virtue please the people, those without enlightened virtue please themselves. Those who please the people grow, those who please… — Thomas Cleary Copy Share Image
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The left has been able to destroy conservatives, dispatch conservatives, to ruin conservatives simply on the basis of accusing them or illustrating… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage… — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power… — Marshall Field Copy Share Image
Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know… — Plato Copy Share Image
It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
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