We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue. — Lambert of Maastricht Copy Share Image
Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world. — Daniel Schacter Copy Share Image
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal. — Democritus Copy Share Image
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being… — Plato Copy Share Image
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies;… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his providence; that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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