Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine. — Rich Karlgaard Copy Share Image
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. —Albert Einstein” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The Stoic discipline of action, which is connected to the virtue of justice, says that we ought to treat others fairly and… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. — Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury Copy Share Image
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