Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job,… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We [American nation] can now, by virtue of new technology, actually get all the energy we need in North America without having… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“For present-day politicians there are only political points to be made from such statements, and the larger the sin the larger the… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady's Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
“Thus the good are unfailingly rewarded with their own virtue, and the wholesome consequences of their actions on society at large. And… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope,… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
According to great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one thing: that is awareness. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
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Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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