Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Sacrifice is a virtue that shows you truly love her and you would do anything to make her happy. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. — Horace Copy Share Image
The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
By virtue of the standing and prestige of President Ben-Zvi, some 3,000 manuscripts originating from Arab lands, some of them of major… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
