Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
“O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Karl Fried Muller Copy Share Image
When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“...for although we may fully respect our social conventions...it may unfortunately happen that , through the perversity of others we encounter only… — Marquis deSade Copy Share Image
War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Toasted Heretic should have been cherished and helped, rather than ignored or sneered at, or put down as "quirky band with an… — Julian Gough Copy Share Image
I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life,… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
