Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze."… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Would it be better if religions were to disappear? I have no idea. Since I do not have any confidence in the… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
“Virtue does not consist in whether you face towards the East or the West; virtue means believing in God, the Last Day,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The seven sacred teachings: love, respect, courage, honesty, wisdom, humility, truth. These are the seven virtues that lead to a full and… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and… — John Jewel Copy Share Image
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Penance should be but the means to increase virtue according to the needs of the individual, and according to what the soul… — Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“In our hearts, we want to believe in—and would choose—great accomplishment and virtue. That’s why our lies, particularly to ourselves, are so… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as… — Horace Copy Share Image
“In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior… — William Damon Copy Share Image
Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Love without truth and honor is licentious in nature. Love without commitment is promiscuous and fleeting. Love without virtue and understanding is… — David W. Stevens, PhD Copy Share Image
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