The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Some situations may push you to become desperate but don't forget the virtue of patience. Keep practicing it. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The aim of the receipts may be virtue, sin, much closer to the work you do — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her… — Sadao Araki Copy Share Image
You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His… — Kylie Bisutti Copy Share Image
The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that… — Denis Johnston Copy Share Image
Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
With hearts that believe in Allah's will and predetermination, we have received the news about the martyrdom of the martyr. . .… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all;… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Modesty is virtue which enhances charm of ones personality & get up. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
