Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward. — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Happiness and virtue react upon each other, - the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue… — George Washington Copy Share Image
[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Mere instruction in morality is not sufficient to nurture the virtues. It might even backfire, especially when the presentation is heavily exhortative… — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
For the young, the practice of equitation is a valuable lesson, as it requires the exercise of all human virtue. If they… — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
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