“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.” — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Familiarity with vice does not produce disgust, it produces attachment. — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice . — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected. — David Hume Copy Share Image
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“We’re supposed to be doing the devil’s work and you’ve gone and contaminated it all with the whiff of virtue. I really… — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We're all in the race game, so to speak, either consciously or unconsciously. We can overtly support white-supremacist racial projects. We can… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue." It means "not." When I go to the store and they say:… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
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